1 debhelper (7.2.8) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
4 by triggers). Closes: #521181
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:20:07 -0400
8 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
11 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
12 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
14 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:37:21 -0400
18 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
20 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
22 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
26 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
29 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
30 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
31 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
32 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
37 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
43 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
46 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
47 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
48 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
49 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
50 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
52 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
53 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
54 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
55 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
56 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
57 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
61 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
64 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
65 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
66 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
67 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
68 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
70 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
74 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
76 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
80 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
82 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
83 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
84 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
85 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
86 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
87 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
88 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
89 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
90 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
91 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
92 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
96 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
98 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
99 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
101 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
102 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
103 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
104 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
106 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
107 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
111 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
113 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
114 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
115 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
116 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
117 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
118 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
119 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
121 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
122 that uses them. Affected options are:
123 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
124 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
125 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
126 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
127 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
128 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
129 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
130 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
131 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
132 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
133 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
134 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
138 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
145 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
151 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
153 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
154 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
156 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
157 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
158 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
159 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
160 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
162 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
164 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
165 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
166 rules (see bug #509756).
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
170 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
176 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
177 * Typo. Closes: #493062
178 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
179 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
183 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
186 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
187 empty files. Closes: #490937
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
191 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
193 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
197 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
204 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
206 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
207 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
208 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
209 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
210 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
215 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
217 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
218 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
219 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
220 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
224 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
227 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
228 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
229 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
230 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
231 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
235 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
242 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
244 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
245 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
246 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
247 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
248 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
249 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
250 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
251 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
252 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
253 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
257 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
260 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
261 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
262 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
263 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
265 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
266 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
267 breaking backwards compatability.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
271 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
274 message in perl 5.10.
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
278 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
284 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Convert copyright file to new format.
287 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
291 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
294 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
298 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
301 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
302 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
303 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
304 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
305 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
306 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
307 logging by dh_listpackages.
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
311 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
314 run and there are no packages of that type.
315 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
316 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
317 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
318 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
320 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
321 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
325 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
327 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
328 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
329 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
333 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
336 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
337 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
339 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
340 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
341 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
342 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
343 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
344 planned but not yet implemented.)
345 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
346 if the Makefile has such a target.
347 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
348 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
349 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
350 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
351 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
352 but not yet implemented.)
353 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
354 recommended default, especially when using dh.
355 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
356 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
357 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
359 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
361 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
362 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
364 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
365 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
366 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
371 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
374 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
375 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
379 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
381 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
382 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
383 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
387 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
393 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
399 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
402 just those installed by the program.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
406 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
409 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
410 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
414 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
417 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
418 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
419 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
420 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
424 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
427 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
428 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
432 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
435 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
436 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
440 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
443 with policy. Closes: #461392
444 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
445 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
446 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
447 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
448 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
452 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
455 Closes: #460340, #460351
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
459 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
462 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
463 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
464 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
465 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
469 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
472 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
473 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
474 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
475 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
476 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
477 package build directory won't work.
478 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
479 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
480 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
481 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
482 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
483 mode. Closes: #459426
484 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
489 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
491 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
492 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
496 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
498 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
500 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
501 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
502 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
503 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
504 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
505 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
509 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
512 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
513 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
514 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
515 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
519 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
522 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
523 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
524 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
525 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
526 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
530 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
533 debian/package.triggers files.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
537 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
540 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
544 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
547 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
548 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
549 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
550 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
555 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
558 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
562 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
565 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
566 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
568 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
573 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
575 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
577 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
578 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
579 * Typo. Closes: #441272
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
583 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
590 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
597 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
600 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
602 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
603 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
604 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
606 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
607 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
608 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
612 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
615 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
616 * Update urls to web page.
617 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
619 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
620 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
624 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
627 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
628 - typo in alternatives call
629 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
631 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
632 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
636 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
639 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
644 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
650 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
656 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
659 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
661 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
662 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
663 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
664 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
665 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
666 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
667 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
668 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
669 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
670 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
671 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
675 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
678 package install. Closes: #415717
679 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
680 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
681 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
682 script and then remove the python files.
683 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
684 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
685 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
686 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
687 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
688 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
689 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
690 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
691 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
692 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
693 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
694 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
695 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
699 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Correct typo in french translation
705 * Typo. Closes: #400571
706 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
708 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
710 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
711 Closes: #406921, #381940
712 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
714 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
715 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
716 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
717 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
718 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
719 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
720 specified). Closes: #381851
721 * Misc minor changes.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
725 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
732 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
733 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
737 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
743 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
744 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
747 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
748 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
750 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
751 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
752 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
753 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
757 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
760 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
763 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
767 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
773 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
776 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
779 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
780 a difficult situation.
781 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
782 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
783 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
784 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
785 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
786 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
787 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
788 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
789 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
790 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
794 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Non-maintainer upload.
797 * Update of dh_python
798 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
799 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
801 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
802 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
803 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
804 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
805 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
807 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
809 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
811 * Non-maintainer upload.
812 * Update of dh_python
813 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
814 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
815 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
816 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
817 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
818 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
819 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
820 specific python version. Closes: #373853
821 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
822 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
824 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
825 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
826 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
827 the not too-distant future).
828 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
829 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
830 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
831 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
832 thus made the build fail.
834 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
836 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Non-maintainer upload.
839 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
841 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
843 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
846 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
847 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
848 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
849 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
850 package. Closes: #301424
851 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
852 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
853 fonts). Closes: #372686
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
857 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
863 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
864 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
865 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
866 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
867 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
868 above, but already depends on that.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
872 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
875 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
876 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
877 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
878 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
879 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
883 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
889 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
895 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
896 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
900 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
903 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
907 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
911 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
912 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
913 new version (0.24.1).
914 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
915 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
918 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
919 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
920 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
921 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
922 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
923 new directory on their own.
924 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
925 * Fix broken directory removal code.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
929 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
932 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
933 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
934 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
935 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
939 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
942 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
943 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
944 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
945 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
946 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
950 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
956 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Typo. Closes: #358904
960 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
961 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
965 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
966 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
970 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
972 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
973 || exit 0 instead of the intended
975 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
976 ignored. Closes: #337664
978 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
983 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
989 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
994 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
995 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
996 the dh_installdebconf manpage
997 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
998 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
999 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1000 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1004 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1007 version. Closes: #350607
1008 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1009 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1010 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1011 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1015 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1018 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1019 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1020 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1024 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1031 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1037 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1040 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1044 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1047 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1048 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1049 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1050 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1051 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1052 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1056 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1059 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1060 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1065 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1068 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1072 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1075 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1079 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1082 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1083 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1084 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1085 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1086 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1087 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1091 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1095 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1096 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1097 link. Closes: #346405
1098 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1100 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1101 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1102 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1103 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1104 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1105 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1106 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1110 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1117 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1123 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1126 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1130 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1133 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1138 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1142 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1143 installed. Closes: #342033
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1147 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1150 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1151 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1152 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1157 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1163 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1169 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1173 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1174 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1175 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1179 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1182 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1187 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1194 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1200 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1203 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1204 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1205 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1206 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1207 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1208 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1209 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1211 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1215 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1218 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1219 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1223 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1226 in standard man dirs.
1227 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1231 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1237 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1240 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1245 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1252 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1259 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1262 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1263 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1267 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1270 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1271 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1272 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1274 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1276 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1282 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1288 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1291 mode. Closes: #324161
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1295 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1298 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1299 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1300 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1301 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1306 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1309 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1310 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1311 is necesary for sanity.
1312 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1313 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1318 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1320 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1321 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1325 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1328 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1332 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1338 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1341 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1342 released, so use at your own risk.
1343 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1344 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1346 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1347 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1348 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1349 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1350 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1351 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1352 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1353 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1354 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1355 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1356 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1357 including twice per config file line now..
1358 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1359 and simplfy the rules file.
1360 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1361 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1362 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1364 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1365 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1369 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1372 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1376 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1379 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1383 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1386 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1390 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1393 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1394 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1395 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1396 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1397 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1398 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1402 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1405 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1406 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1407 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1412 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1415 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1416 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1421 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1424 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1425 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1426 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1431 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1434 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1435 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1436 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1440 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1446 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1453 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1456 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1457 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1458 unknown. Closes: #282924
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1462 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1469 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Spanish man page updates.
1472 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1477 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1483 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1486 * dh_desktop: reindent
1487 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1488 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1492 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1498 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1500 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1504 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1506 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1510 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1513 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1514 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1518 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1524 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1530 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1537 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1540 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1544 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1547 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1548 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1549 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1550 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1551 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1552 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1554 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1555 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1556 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1557 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1558 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1559 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1560 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1561 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1562 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1563 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1564 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1565 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1566 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1567 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1568 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1569 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1573 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1580 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1583 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1587 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1590 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1594 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1597 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1601 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1604 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1608 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1614 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1620 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1626 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1629 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1630 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1631 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1635 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1638 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1642 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1645 but occasionally right and necessary.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1649 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1652 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1653 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1654 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1655 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1656 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1660 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1663 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1665 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1666 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1667 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1668 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1669 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1670 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1671 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1672 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1673 postinst scripts for udebs.
1674 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1678 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1681 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1683 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1684 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1688 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1694 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1701 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1708 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1711 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1715 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1718 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1722 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1725 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1728 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1729 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1733 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1739 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1742 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1746 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1749 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1750 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1751 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1753 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1755 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1756 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1757 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1761 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1764 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1769 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1772 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1773 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1774 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1779 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1785 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1791 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1794 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1795 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1796 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1797 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1798 associated -dbg packages.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1802 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1805 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1809 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1812 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1816 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1819 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1823 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1826 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1831 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1834 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1838 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1841 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1846 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1849 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1853 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1857 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1858 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1859 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1860 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1861 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1862 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1863 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1864 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1865 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1866 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1870 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1873 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1878 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1881 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1882 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1886 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1889 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1890 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1895 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1898 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1902 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1905 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1909 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1912 out section number. Closes: #204731
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1916 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1923 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1929 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1935 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1938 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1939 removal. Closes: #204286
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1943 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1946 renaming. Closes: #203548
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1950 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1953 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1954 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1958 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1964 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1970 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1976 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1979 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1980 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1981 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1985 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1988 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1989 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1993 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1999 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2006 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2009 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2017 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2024 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2026 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2027 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2031 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2034 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2039 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2042 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2046 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2052 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2054 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2058 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2061 it break hard links (see #188663).
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2065 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2068 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2072 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2078 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2082 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2083 debconf-mergetemplates
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2087 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2090 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2094 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2097 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2101 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2104 * Update debhelper(1).
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2108 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2111 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2112 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2113 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2114 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2115 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2119 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2122 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2123 the shell. Closes: #178524
2124 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2128 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2131 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2135 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2138 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2142 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2145 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2146 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2147 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2148 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2153 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2156 files from installation.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2160 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2163 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2164 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2168 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2171 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2175 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2178 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2182 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2188 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2194 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2198 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2199 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2201 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2205 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2208 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2209 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2210 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2211 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2215 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2218 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2222 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2225 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2226 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2230 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2234 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2245 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2249 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2250 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2251 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2256 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2259 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2260 practice. Closes: #163303
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2264 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2277 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2280 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2282 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2283 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2284 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2285 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2286 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2290 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2293 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2298 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2304 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2311 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2314 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2319 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2325 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2331 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2337 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2344 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2347 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2348 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2349 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2350 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2361 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2371 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2372 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2376 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2379 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2380 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2381 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2382 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2383 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2390 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2392 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2397 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2400 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2404 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2407 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2408 right thing. Closes: #150644
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2412 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Stupid, evil typo.
2415 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2419 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2426 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2429 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2430 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2441 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2444 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2448 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2451 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2452 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2457 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2460 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2464 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2470 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2473 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2474 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2478 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2484 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Removing perl warning message.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2490 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2493 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2494 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2495 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2496 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2497 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2498 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2499 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2500 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2504 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2510 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2517 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2520 debconf-mergetemplate.
2521 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2522 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2529 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2530 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2531 dh_install, which ...
2532 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2533 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2534 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2535 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2536 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2537 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2538 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2539 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2540 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2541 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2542 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2543 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2544 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2545 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2546 other minor changes.
2547 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2548 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2549 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2550 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2551 course there's -X ..)
2552 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2553 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2554 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2556 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2557 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2558 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2559 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2560 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2565 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2571 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2574 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2578 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2584 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2590 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2596 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2602 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2605 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2606 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2607 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2608 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2610 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2611 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2615 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2621 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2624 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2628 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2631 upset. Closes: #131322
2633 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2635 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2638 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2639 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2640 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2641 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2642 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2643 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2644 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2645 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2646 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2647 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2648 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2649 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2650 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2651 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2652 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2654 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2658 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2661 - Better indenting of generated code.
2662 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2666 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2670 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2671 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2672 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2673 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2674 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2675 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2676 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2680 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2683 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2687 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2690 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2691 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2692 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2693 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2694 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2695 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2696 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2697 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2698 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2699 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2700 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2701 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2702 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2703 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2704 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2709 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2715 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2718 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2719 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2723 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2726 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2727 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2731 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2737 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2740 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2741 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2742 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2743 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2744 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2749 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2755 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2758 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2762 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2765 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2770 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2776 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2779 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2783 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2789 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2793 Also some indentation fixes.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2797 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2800 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2801 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2802 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2803 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2804 Closes: #106514, #85520
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2808 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2814 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2820 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2826 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2832 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2838 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2841 change it in debhelper v4..
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2845 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2851 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2854 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2858 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2861 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2865 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2871 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2874 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2875 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2876 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2877 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2878 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2879 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2880 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2881 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2882 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2883 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2884 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2885 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2889 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2892 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2896 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2903 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2906 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2907 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2908 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2909 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2910 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2911 program those options go to. So, for example,
2912 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2913 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2914 something complex. Closes: #89311
2915 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2919 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2922 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2923 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2924 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2928 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2931 through loop. Closes: #98598
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2935 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * Missing semi-colon.
2938 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2939 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2943 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2946 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2947 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2948 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2952 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2955 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2956 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2960 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2963 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2967 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2970 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2971 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2975 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2978 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2979 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2980 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2984 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2987 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2988 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2989 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2993 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2996 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3000 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3006 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3012 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3018 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3024 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3027 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3031 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3034 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3035 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3036 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3037 followed. Closes: #85483
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3041 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3043 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3044 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3045 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3049 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3052 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3053 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3054 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3055 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3056 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3057 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3058 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3059 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3060 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3061 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3062 Closes: #88464, #77743
3063 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3064 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3065 us to deal with that gracefully.
3066 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3068 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3069 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3070 a while, Closes: #51225
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3074 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3080 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3083 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3087 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3091 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3096 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3099 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3100 don't make packlist files.
3101 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3102 debhelper coding standards.
3103 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3104 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3108 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3111 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3115 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3118 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3119 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3120 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3121 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3122 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3123 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3124 but is mildly deprecated.
3125 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3126 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3127 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3128 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3129 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3130 switching to statoverrides..
3131 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3132 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3133 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3134 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3135 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3136 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3138 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3139 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3140 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3141 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3142 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3143 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3144 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3145 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3146 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3148 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3149 variable names, pod man pages).
3150 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3151 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3152 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3153 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3154 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3155 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3156 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3160 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3166 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3173 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3176 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3180 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3182 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3183 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3184 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3188 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3190 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3191 they were previously ignored.
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3195 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3197 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3198 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3202 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3204 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3205 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3206 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3210 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3212 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3216 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3218 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3219 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3223 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3225 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3226 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3227 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3228 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3229 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3230 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3231 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3232 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3233 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3234 it is an obsolete program.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3238 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3240 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3244 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3248 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3250 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3254 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3256 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3258 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3260 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3264 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3270 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * typo: Closes, #78567
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3276 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3282 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3288 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3291 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3292 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3293 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3294 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3295 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3299 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3302 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3307 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3310 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3311 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3312 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3313 backwards-compatability.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3317 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3320 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3321 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3322 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3323 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3324 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3325 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3327 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3328 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3329 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3331 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3333 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3334 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3335 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3336 should now be raised to severity important..
3337 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3338 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3342 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3345 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3350 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3356 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3362 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3368 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3375 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3378 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3379 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3380 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3381 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3385 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3391 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3394 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3395 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3396 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3397 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3398 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3399 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3404 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3407 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3411 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3417 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3420 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3425 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3428 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3429 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3430 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3431 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3435 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3439 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3442 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3445 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3446 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3449 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3451 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3452 the TODO entry about it.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3456 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3463 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3466 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3467 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3471 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3474 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3475 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3476 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3477 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3481 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3487 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3494 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3497 (this appears to be logal).
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3501 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3504 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3505 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3506 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3507 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3511 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3517 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3520 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3521 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3522 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3523 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3527 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3533 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3536 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3540 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3547 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3550 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3551 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3552 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3557 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3564 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3570 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3573 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3574 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3575 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3576 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3577 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3578 notice until v2 is complete.
3579 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3580 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3581 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3582 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3583 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3584 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3586 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3587 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3588 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3589 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3593 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3599 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3606 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3609 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3613 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3620 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3623 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3624 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3625 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3626 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3634 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3635 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3636 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3641 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3644 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3645 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3649 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3652 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3656 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3659 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3663 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3670 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3673 depend on the build and install targets.
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3677 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3680 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3684 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3691 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3697 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3703 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3706 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3707 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3708 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3709 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3710 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3711 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3713 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3714 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3715 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3716 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3717 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3718 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3719 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3723 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3729 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3735 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3738 right place. Closes: #55065
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3742 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3749 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3752 * Copyright date updates.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3756 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3759 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3764 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3777 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3783 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3789 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3795 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3798 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3799 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3800 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3801 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3802 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3803 bits until all files have been registered.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3807 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * dh_installmanpages:
3810 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3811 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3812 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3813 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3814 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3815 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3816 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3817 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3818 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3819 otherwise change the result at all.
3821 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3822 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3823 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3824 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3825 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3830 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3836 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3839 act on files that don't exist.
3840 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3841 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3842 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3844 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3845 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3846 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3847 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3851 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3857 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3863 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3866 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3870 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3873 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3875 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3876 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3877 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3881 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3884 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3885 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3886 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3887 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3888 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3889 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3890 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3892 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3894 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3898 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3905 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3911 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3917 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3920 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3924 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3930 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3936 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3939 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3940 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3941 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3942 I made some changes, though:
3943 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3944 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3945 that is a clear violation of policy.
3946 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3947 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3948 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3949 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3950 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3951 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3952 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3953 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3954 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3956 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3960 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3966 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3969 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3973 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3976 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3977 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3982 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3988 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3995 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3998 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3999 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4000 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4001 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4002 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4003 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4004 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4008 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4014 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4018 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4019 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4023 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4029 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4032 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4036 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4039 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4040 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4044 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4046 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4051 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4055 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4059 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4062 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4063 for the dependancies to be generated.
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4067 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4070 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4074 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4077 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4078 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4079 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4084 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4087 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4088 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4092 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4098 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4107 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4111 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4117 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4120 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4121 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4122 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4123 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4124 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4125 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4126 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4127 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4128 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4129 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4130 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4131 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4135 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4138 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4139 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4141 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4142 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4143 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4144 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4145 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4146 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4148 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4149 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4156 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4160 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4167 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4170 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4175 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4178 for building debhelper.
4179 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4183 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4190 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4193 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4200 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4201 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4202 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4203 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4204 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4205 it's always available.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4209 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4212 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4213 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4214 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4218 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4221 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4222 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4226 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4235 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4239 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4245 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4248 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4249 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4250 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4254 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4257 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4265 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4266 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4268 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4269 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4273 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4279 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4285 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4288 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4292 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4295 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4296 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4298 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4302 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4305 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4306 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4307 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4311 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4314 things if CDPATH is set.
4316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4318 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4320 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4324 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4327 seems to make sense for the transition.
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4331 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4334 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4339 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4342 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4343 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4347 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4350 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4357 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4358 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4359 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4360 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4364 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4370 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4373 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4374 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4375 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4376 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4377 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4378 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4379 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4380 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4381 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4382 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4387 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4390 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4391 * README: mention doc/v2
4392 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4393 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4397 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4399 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4400 be using this script RSN.
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4404 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4407 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4408 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4409 more than 1 init script.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4413 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4416 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4420 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * Changed perl version detection.
4423 * Changed call to find.
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4427 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4430 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4432 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4437 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * Really include dh_installpam.
4441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4443 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4445 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4446 * Wrote man page for same.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4450 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4453 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4454 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4459 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4466 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4469 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4470 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4471 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4472 x bit was being set!
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4476 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4479 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4480 well. (Closes: 38900)
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4484 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4487 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4488 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4492 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4498 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4505 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4511 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4514 help from Julian Gilbey.
4515 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4516 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4517 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4518 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4519 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4520 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4521 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4526 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4532 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4539 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4545 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4551 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4554 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4558 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4561 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4565 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4568 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4572 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4578 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4581 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4585 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4591 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4597 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4600 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4601 may be deleted. (#35845)
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4605 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4607 * Various man page enhancements.
4608 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4613 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4616 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4617 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4621 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4624 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4625 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4626 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4628 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4629 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4634 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4640 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * Another very minor typo fix.
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4646 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * Very minor typo fix.
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4652 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4655 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4656 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4660 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4666 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4669 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4670 variables properly (#34850).
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4674 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4680 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4683 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4684 (automatically generated by build process).
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4688 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4690 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4694 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4697 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4698 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4700 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4704 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4707 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4711 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * README: minor typo fix.
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4717 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4720 leave it at that. :-)
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4724 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4730 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4736 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4739 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4740 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4741 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4745 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4748 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4752 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4755 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4759 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4762 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4763 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4764 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4765 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4769 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4772 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4773 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4774 Craig Small for spotting this.
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4778 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4781 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4782 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4786 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4792 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4795 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4799 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4801 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4802 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4803 working on the last version of debhelper.
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4807 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4810 being made. (#23255)
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4814 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4820 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4823 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4827 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4830 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4831 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4832 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4833 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4837 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4840 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4841 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4842 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4843 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4845 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4846 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4848 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4853 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4855 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4859 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4865 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4868 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4869 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4870 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4871 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4872 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4873 suidregister actually supports it.
4874 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4875 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4879 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4886 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4889 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4890 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4891 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4892 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4893 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4894 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4895 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4899 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4901 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4902 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4906 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4909 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4910 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4911 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4912 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4916 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4919 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4921 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4922 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4923 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4924 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4925 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4926 effect, either. (#30118)
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4930 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4936 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4939 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4940 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4944 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4950 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4953 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4954 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4955 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4956 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4960 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4963 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4964 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4968 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4974 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4977 packages, painlessly.
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4981 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4987 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4993 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4999 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * The perl conversion is complete.
5003 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5005 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5006 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5007 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5012 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5014 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5015 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5016 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5017 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5021 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5024 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5026 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5028 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5029 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5033 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5036 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5037 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5041 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5047 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5050 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5051 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5052 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5053 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5054 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5058 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5061 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5062 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5063 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5064 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5068 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5071 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5075 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5077 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5078 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5079 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5080 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5081 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5082 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5083 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5084 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5085 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5089 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5095 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5098 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5099 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5100 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5105 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5108 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5112 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5115 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5119 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5122 sections of shared libraries.
5123 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5124 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5125 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5126 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5127 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5128 things you don't want them to.
5129 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5130 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5134 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5137 shared libraries. (#26414)
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5141 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5143 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5144 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5145 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5146 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5150 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5152 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5154 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5156 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5157 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5158 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5159 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5160 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5164 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5167 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5171 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5174 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5175 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5180 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5183 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5187 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5190 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5191 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5192 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5193 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5194 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5196 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5197 remove debian/files properly.
5198 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5199 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5200 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5201 * Removed bogus menu file.
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5205 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5208 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5212 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5215 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5216 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5217 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5218 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5219 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5220 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5224 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5227 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5228 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5229 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5230 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5234 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5241 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5243 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5244 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5245 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5247 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5248 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5249 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5250 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5251 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5252 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5256 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5259 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5260 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5261 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5262 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5263 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5264 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5265 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5266 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5267 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5268 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5269 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5270 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5271 passed any switches.
5272 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5276 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5279 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5280 at all for a long while.
5281 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5282 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5283 large chunks in the process.
5284 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5285 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5286 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5291 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5294 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5296 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5301 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5304 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5305 that don't always have the same files in them.
5306 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5307 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5308 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5312 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5316 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5317 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5318 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5319 updating 27 man pages.
5320 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5321 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5322 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5323 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5324 programs act on. (#25247)
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5328 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5332 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5333 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5334 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5335 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5336 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5337 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5342 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5349 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5356 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5359 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5363 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5369 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5372 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5373 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5374 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5375 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5376 package by accident.
5377 * Is version 1.0 next?
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5381 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5384 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5385 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5389 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5392 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5393 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5394 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5395 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5396 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5398 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5403 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5406 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5407 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5411 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5414 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5418 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5421 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5422 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5427 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5429 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5433 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5436 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5437 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5442 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5448 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5451 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5452 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5453 past week. Thanks, guys!
5455 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5456 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5457 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5458 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5459 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5460 would do in the same situation.
5461 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5462 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5464 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5466 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5467 permissions changed.
5468 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5469 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5470 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5471 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5472 files are treated identically.
5473 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5474 * Minor man page fixes.
5475 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5476 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5477 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5481 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5484 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5485 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5486 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5487 use -X multiple times, too.
5488 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5489 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5493 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5496 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5497 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5501 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5504 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5508 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5510 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5511 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5512 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5513 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5514 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5515 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5516 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5517 shape if you're starting a new package.
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5521 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5523 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5524 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5528 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5531 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5532 because of missing symlinks.
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5536 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5542 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5545 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5546 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5547 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5548 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5549 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5551 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5552 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5556 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5558 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5559 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5560 to be changed after the fact :-)
5561 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5565 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5567 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5568 no version string after the -V.
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5572 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5574 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5575 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5580 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5583 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5587 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5590 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5591 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5592 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5593 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5594 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5595 I always welcome corrections!
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5599 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5605 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5608 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5609 * Documented this new switch.
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5613 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5616 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5617 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5618 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5619 no packages use the old behavior.
5621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5623 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5625 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5626 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5627 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5631 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5634 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5638 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5644 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5647 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5651 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5654 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5655 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5656 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5660 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5666 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5669 into the source package by accident.
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5673 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5676 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5677 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5678 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5679 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5680 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5681 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5686 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5690 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5691 inspired to implement some of it.
5692 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5696 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5699 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5703 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5706 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5707 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5711 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5714 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5715 have done.) (#17598)
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5719 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5721 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5725 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5731 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5734 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5738 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5741 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5742 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5746 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5749 argument processor in perl.
5750 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5751 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5752 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5753 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5757 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5760 type directories. (#16933)
5761 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5762 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5763 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5764 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5765 are supported. (#16935)
5766 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5771 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5774 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5778 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5782 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5783 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5784 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5785 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5786 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5787 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5791 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5794 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5795 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5797 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5798 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5799 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5800 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5801 a given package, or -i or -a.
5802 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5803 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5804 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5805 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5806 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5807 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5808 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5809 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5810 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5812 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5813 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5814 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5818 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5821 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5822 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5827 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5830 does not have a section.
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5834 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5837 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5838 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5839 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5843 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * Fixed typo #16215.
5847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5849 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5851 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5852 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5853 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5854 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5855 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5856 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5861 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5864 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5865 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5866 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5871 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5877 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5883 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5885 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5886 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5887 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5888 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5889 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5890 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5891 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5895 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5897 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5901 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5903 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5904 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5908 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5910 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5911 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5912 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5913 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5917 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5919 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5920 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5924 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5926 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5930 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5932 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5933 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5937 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5939 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5940 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5944 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5946 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5950 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5952 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5953 postinst, postrm, etc.
5955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5957 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5959 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5963 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5966 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5967 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5968 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5969 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5970 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5974 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5976 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5977 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5978 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5982 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5984 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5985 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5989 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5992 installing package files into.
5993 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5998 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6002 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6006 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6012 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6015 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6019 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6021 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6022 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6023 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6024 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6025 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6029 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6031 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6032 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6033 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6034 multiple binary packages.
6035 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6036 should rebuild them with this version.
6037 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6041 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6044 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6048 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6051 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6055 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6058 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6059 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6060 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6061 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6062 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6063 debian/README.debian.
6064 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6065 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6066 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6067 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6068 in a few situations.)
6070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6072 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6074 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6078 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6080 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6084 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6086 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6087 * Fixed several man pages.
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6091 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6094 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6095 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6099 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6102 is ready for general use.
6103 * Added man pages for all commands.
6104 * Multiple binary package support.
6105 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6106 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6107 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6109 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6110 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6111 auto-installed as parameters.
6112 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6114 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6117 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6118 the package build directory it is to act on.
6119 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6120 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6121 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6125 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6127 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6128 ready to replace debstd.
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400