1 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
7 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
10 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
11 default. Closes: #537140
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
15 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
18 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
19 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
23 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
26 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
30 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
33 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
37 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
40 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
42 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
43 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
44 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
48 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
51 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
52 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
53 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
57 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
60 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
61 warning or deprecation message.
62 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
63 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
64 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
65 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
66 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
67 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
68 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
69 Closes: #534639, #357434
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
73 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
79 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
81 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
82 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
83 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
84 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
85 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
87 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
88 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
89 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
93 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
99 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
106 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
109 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
113 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
117 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
118 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
120 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
121 file support. Closes: #494914
122 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
126 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
129 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
130 parameters. Closes: #527256
131 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
132 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
133 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
137 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
141 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
142 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
143 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
147 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
149 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
150 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
151 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
152 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
156 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
159 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
160 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
162 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
163 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
164 by triggers). Closes: #521181
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
168 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
172 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
176 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
178 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
179 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
180 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
181 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
182 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
187 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
193 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
195 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
196 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
197 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
198 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
199 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
200 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
202 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
203 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
204 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
205 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
206 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
207 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
211 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
214 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
215 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
216 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
217 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
218 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
220 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
224 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
226 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
230 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
232 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
233 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
234 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
235 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
236 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
237 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
238 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
239 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
240 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
241 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
242 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
246 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
248 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
249 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
251 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
252 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
253 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
254 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
256 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
257 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
261 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
263 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
264 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
265 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
266 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
267 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
268 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
269 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
271 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
272 that uses them. Affected options are:
273 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
274 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
275 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
276 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
277 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
278 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
279 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
280 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
281 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
282 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
283 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
284 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
288 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
295 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
301 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
303 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
304 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
306 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
307 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
308 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
309 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
310 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
312 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
314 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
315 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
316 rules (see bug #509756).
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
320 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
326 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
327 * Typo. Closes: #493062
328 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
329 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
333 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
336 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
337 empty files. Closes: #490937
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
341 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
347 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
349 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
354 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
357 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
358 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
359 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
360 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
365 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
367 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
368 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
369 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
370 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
374 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
377 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
378 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
379 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
380 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
381 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
385 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
392 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
394 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
395 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
396 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
397 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
398 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
399 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
400 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
401 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
402 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
403 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
407 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
410 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
411 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
412 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
413 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
415 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
416 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
417 breaking backwards compatability.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
421 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
424 message in perl 5.10.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
428 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
434 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Convert copyright file to new format.
437 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
441 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
444 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
448 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
451 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
452 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
453 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
454 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
455 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
456 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
457 logging by dh_listpackages.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
461 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
464 run and there are no packages of that type.
465 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
466 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
467 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
468 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
470 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
471 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
475 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
477 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
478 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
479 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
483 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
485 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
486 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
487 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
489 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
490 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
491 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
492 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
493 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
494 planned but not yet implemented.)
495 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
496 if the Makefile has such a target.
497 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
498 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
499 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
500 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
501 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
502 but not yet implemented.)
503 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
504 recommended default, especially when using dh.
505 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
506 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
507 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
509 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
511 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
512 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
514 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
515 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
516 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
521 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
524 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
525 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
529 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
531 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
532 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
533 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
537 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
543 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
549 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
552 just those installed by the program.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
556 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
559 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
560 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
564 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
567 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
568 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
569 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
570 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
574 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
577 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
578 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
582 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
585 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
586 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
590 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
593 with policy. Closes: #461392
594 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
595 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
596 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
597 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
598 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
602 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
605 Closes: #460340, #460351
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
609 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
612 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
613 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
614 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
615 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
619 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
622 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
623 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
624 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
625 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
626 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
627 package build directory won't work.
628 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
629 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
630 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
631 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
632 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
633 mode. Closes: #459426
634 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
639 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
642 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
646 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
650 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
651 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
652 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
653 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
654 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
655 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
659 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
662 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
663 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
664 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
665 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
669 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
672 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
673 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
674 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
675 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
676 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
680 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
683 debian/package.triggers files.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
687 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
690 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
694 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
697 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
698 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
699 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
700 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
705 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
708 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
712 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
715 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
716 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
718 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
723 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
727 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
728 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
729 * Typo. Closes: #441272
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
733 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
740 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
747 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
750 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
752 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
753 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
754 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
756 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
757 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
758 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
762 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
765 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
766 * Update urls to web page.
767 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
769 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
770 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
774 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
777 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
778 - typo in alternatives call
779 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
781 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
782 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
786 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
789 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
794 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
800 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
806 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
809 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
811 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
812 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
813 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
814 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
815 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
816 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
817 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
818 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
819 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
820 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
821 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
825 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
828 package install. Closes: #415717
829 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
830 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
831 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
832 script and then remove the python files.
833 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
834 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
835 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
836 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
837 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
838 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
839 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
840 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
841 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
842 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
843 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
844 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
845 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
849 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
852 * Correct typo in french translation
855 * Typo. Closes: #400571
856 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
858 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
860 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
861 Closes: #406921, #381940
862 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
864 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
865 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
866 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
867 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
868 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
869 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
870 specified). Closes: #381851
871 * Misc minor changes.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
875 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
878 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
882 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
883 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
887 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
893 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
894 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
897 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
898 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
900 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
901 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
902 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
903 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
907 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
910 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
913 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
917 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
923 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
929 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
930 a difficult situation.
931 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
932 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
933 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
934 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
935 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
936 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
937 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
938 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
939 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
940 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
944 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Non-maintainer upload.
947 * Update of dh_python
948 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
949 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
951 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
952 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
953 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
954 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
955 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
957 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
959 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
961 * Non-maintainer upload.
962 * Update of dh_python
963 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
964 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
965 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
966 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
967 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
968 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
969 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
970 specific python version. Closes: #373853
971 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
972 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
974 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
975 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
976 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
977 the not too-distant future).
978 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
979 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
980 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
981 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
982 thus made the build fail.
984 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
986 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Non-maintainer upload.
989 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
991 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
993 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
996 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
997 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
998 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
999 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1000 package. Closes: #301424
1001 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1002 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1003 fonts). Closes: #372686
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1007 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1013 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1014 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1015 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1016 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1017 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1018 above, but already depends on that.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1022 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1025 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1026 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1027 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1028 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1029 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1033 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1039 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1045 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1046 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1050 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1053 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1057 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1061 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1062 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1063 new version (0.24.1).
1064 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1065 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1068 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1069 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1070 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1071 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1072 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1073 new directory on their own.
1074 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1075 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1079 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1082 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1083 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1084 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1085 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1089 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1092 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1093 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1094 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1095 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1096 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1100 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1106 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1110 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1111 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1115 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1116 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1120 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1122 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1123 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1125 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1126 ignored. Closes: #337664
1128 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1133 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1139 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1144 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1145 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1146 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1147 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1148 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1149 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1150 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1154 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1157 version. Closes: #350607
1158 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1159 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1160 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1161 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1165 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1168 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1169 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1170 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1174 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1181 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1187 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1190 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1194 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1197 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1198 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1199 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1200 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1201 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1202 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1206 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1209 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1210 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1215 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1218 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1222 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1225 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1229 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1232 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1233 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1234 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1235 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1236 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1237 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1241 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1245 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1246 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1247 link. Closes: #346405
1248 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1250 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1251 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1252 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1253 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1254 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1255 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1256 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1260 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1267 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1273 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1276 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1280 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1283 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1288 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1292 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1293 installed. Closes: #342033
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1297 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1300 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1301 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1302 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1307 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1313 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1319 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1323 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1324 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1325 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1329 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1332 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1337 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1344 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1350 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1353 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1354 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1355 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1356 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1357 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1358 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1359 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1361 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1365 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1368 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1369 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1373 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1376 in standard man dirs.
1377 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1381 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1387 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1390 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1395 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1402 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1409 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1412 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1413 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1417 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1420 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1421 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1422 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1424 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1426 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1432 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1438 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1441 mode. Closes: #324161
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1445 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1448 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1449 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1450 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1451 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1456 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1459 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1460 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1461 is necesary for sanity.
1462 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1463 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1468 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1470 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1471 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1475 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1478 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1482 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1488 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1491 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1492 released, so use at your own risk.
1493 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1494 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1496 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1497 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1498 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1499 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1500 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1501 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1502 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1503 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1504 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1505 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1506 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1507 including twice per config file line now..
1508 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1509 and simplfy the rules file.
1510 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1511 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1512 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1514 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1515 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1519 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1522 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1526 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1529 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1533 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1536 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1540 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1543 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1544 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1545 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1546 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1547 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1548 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1552 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1555 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1556 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1557 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1562 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1565 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1566 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1571 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1574 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1575 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1576 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1581 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1584 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1585 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1586 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1590 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1596 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1603 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1606 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1607 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1608 unknown. Closes: #282924
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1612 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1619 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Spanish man page updates.
1622 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1627 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1633 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1636 * dh_desktop: reindent
1637 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1638 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1642 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1648 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1650 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1654 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1656 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1660 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1663 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1664 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1668 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1674 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1680 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1687 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1690 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1694 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1697 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1698 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1699 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1700 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1701 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1702 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1704 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1705 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1706 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1707 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1708 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1709 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1710 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1711 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1712 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1713 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1714 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1715 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1716 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1717 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1718 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1719 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1723 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1730 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1733 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1737 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1740 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1744 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1747 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1751 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1754 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1758 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1764 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1770 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1776 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1779 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1780 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1781 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1785 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1788 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1792 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1795 but occasionally right and necessary.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1799 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1802 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1803 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1804 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1805 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1806 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1810 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1813 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1815 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1816 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1817 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1818 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1819 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1820 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1821 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1822 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1823 postinst scripts for udebs.
1824 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1828 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1831 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1833 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1834 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1838 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1844 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1851 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1858 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1861 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1865 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1868 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1872 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1875 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1878 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1879 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1883 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1889 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1892 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1896 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1899 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1900 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1901 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1903 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1905 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1906 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1907 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1911 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1914 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1919 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1922 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1923 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1924 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1929 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1935 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1941 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1944 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1945 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1946 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1947 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1948 associated -dbg packages.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1952 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1955 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1959 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1962 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1966 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1969 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1973 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1976 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1981 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1984 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1988 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1991 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1999 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2003 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2007 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2008 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2009 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2010 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2011 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2012 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2013 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2014 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2015 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2016 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2023 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2028 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2031 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2032 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2036 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2039 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2040 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2045 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2048 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2052 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2055 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2059 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2062 out section number. Closes: #204731
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2066 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2073 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2085 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2088 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2089 removal. Closes: #204286
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2096 renaming. Closes: #203548
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2103 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2104 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2108 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2114 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2120 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2126 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2129 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2130 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2131 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2138 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2139 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2143 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2149 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2156 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2159 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2164 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2167 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2171 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2174 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2176 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2177 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2181 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2184 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2189 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2192 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2196 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2202 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2204 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2208 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2211 it break hard links (see #188663).
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2215 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2218 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2222 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2228 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2232 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2233 debconf-mergetemplates
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2237 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2240 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2244 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2247 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2251 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2254 * Update debhelper(1).
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2258 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2261 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2262 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2263 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2264 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2265 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2269 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2272 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2273 the shell. Closes: #178524
2274 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2278 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2281 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2285 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2288 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2292 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2295 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2296 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2297 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2298 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2303 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2306 files from installation.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2310 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2313 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2314 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2318 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2321 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2325 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2328 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2332 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2338 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2344 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2348 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2349 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2351 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2355 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2358 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2359 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2360 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2361 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2365 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2368 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2372 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2375 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2376 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2380 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2384 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2389 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2395 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2399 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2400 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2401 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2409 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2410 practice. Closes: #163303
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2414 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2420 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2427 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2430 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2432 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2433 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2434 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2435 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2436 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2440 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2443 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2448 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2454 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2461 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2464 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2469 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2475 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2487 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2494 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2497 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2498 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2499 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2500 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2505 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2511 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2518 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2521 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2522 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2529 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2530 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2531 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2532 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2533 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2537 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2540 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2542 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2547 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2550 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2554 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2557 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2558 right thing. Closes: #150644
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2562 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Stupid, evil typo.
2565 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2569 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2576 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2579 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2580 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2585 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2591 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2594 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2598 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2601 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2602 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2607 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2610 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2620 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2623 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2624 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2628 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2634 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * Removing perl warning message.
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2640 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2643 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2644 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2645 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2646 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2647 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2648 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2649 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2650 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2654 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2660 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2667 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2670 debconf-mergetemplate.
2671 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2672 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2676 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2679 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2680 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2681 dh_install, which ...
2682 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2683 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2684 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2685 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2686 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2687 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2688 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2689 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2690 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2691 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2692 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2693 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2694 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2695 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2696 other minor changes.
2697 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2698 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2699 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2700 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2701 course there's -X ..)
2702 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2703 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2704 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2706 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2707 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2708 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2709 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2710 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2715 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2721 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2724 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2728 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2734 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2740 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2746 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2752 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2755 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2756 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2757 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2758 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2760 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2761 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2765 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2771 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2774 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2778 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2781 upset. Closes: #131322
2783 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2785 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2788 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2789 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2790 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2791 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2792 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2793 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2794 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2795 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2796 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2797 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2798 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2799 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2800 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2801 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2802 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2804 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2808 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2811 - Better indenting of generated code.
2812 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2816 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2820 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2821 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2822 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2823 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2824 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2825 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2826 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2830 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2833 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2837 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2840 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2841 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2842 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2843 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2844 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2845 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2846 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2847 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2848 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2849 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2850 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2851 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2852 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2853 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2854 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2859 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2865 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2868 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2869 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2873 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2876 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2877 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2881 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2887 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2890 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2891 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2892 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2893 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2894 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2899 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2905 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2908 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2912 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2915 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2920 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2926 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2929 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2933 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2939 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2943 Also some indentation fixes.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2947 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2950 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2951 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2952 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2953 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2954 Closes: #106514, #85520
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2958 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2964 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2970 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2976 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2982 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2988 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2991 change it in debhelper v4..
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2995 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3001 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3004 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3008 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3011 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3015 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3021 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3024 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3025 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3026 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3027 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3028 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3029 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3030 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3031 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3032 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3033 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3034 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3035 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3039 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3042 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3046 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3053 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3056 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3057 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3058 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3059 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3060 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3061 program those options go to. So, for example,
3062 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3063 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3064 something complex. Closes: #89311
3065 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3069 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3072 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3073 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3074 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3078 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3081 through loop. Closes: #98598
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3085 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * Missing semi-colon.
3088 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3089 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3093 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3096 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3097 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3098 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3102 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3105 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3106 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3110 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3113 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3117 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3120 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3121 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3125 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3128 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3129 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3130 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3134 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3137 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3138 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3139 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3143 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3146 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3150 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3156 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3162 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3168 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3174 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3177 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3181 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3184 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3185 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3186 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3187 followed. Closes: #85483
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3191 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3193 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3194 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3195 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3199 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3202 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3203 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3204 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3205 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3206 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3207 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3208 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3209 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3210 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3211 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3212 Closes: #88464, #77743
3213 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3214 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3215 us to deal with that gracefully.
3216 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3218 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3219 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3220 a while, Closes: #51225
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3224 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3230 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3233 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3237 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3241 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3246 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3249 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3250 don't make packlist files.
3251 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3252 debhelper coding standards.
3253 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3254 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3258 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3261 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3265 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3268 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3269 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3270 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3271 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3272 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3273 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3274 but is mildly deprecated.
3275 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3276 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3277 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3278 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3279 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3280 switching to statoverrides..
3281 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3282 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3283 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3284 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3285 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3286 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3288 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3289 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3290 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3291 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3292 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3293 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3294 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3295 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3296 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3298 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3299 variable names, pod man pages).
3300 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3301 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3302 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3303 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3304 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3305 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3306 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3310 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3316 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3323 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3326 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3330 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3332 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3333 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3334 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3338 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3340 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3341 they were previously ignored.
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3345 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3347 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3348 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3352 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3354 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3355 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3356 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3360 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3362 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3366 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3368 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3369 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3373 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3375 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3376 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3377 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3378 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3379 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3380 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3381 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3382 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3383 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3384 it is an obsolete program.
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3388 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3390 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3394 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3398 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3400 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3404 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3406 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3408 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3410 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3414 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3420 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * typo: Closes, #78567
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3426 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3432 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3438 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3441 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3442 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3443 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3444 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3445 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3449 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3452 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3457 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3460 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3461 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3462 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3463 backwards-compatability.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3467 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3470 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3471 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3472 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3473 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3474 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3475 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3477 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3478 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3479 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3481 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3483 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3484 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3485 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3486 should now be raised to severity important..
3487 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3488 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3492 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3495 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3500 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3506 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3512 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3518 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3525 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3528 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3529 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3530 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3531 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3535 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3541 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3544 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3545 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3546 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3547 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3548 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3549 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3554 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3557 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3561 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3567 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3570 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3575 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3578 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3579 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3580 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3581 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3585 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3589 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3592 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3595 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3596 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3599 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3601 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3602 the TODO entry about it.
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3606 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3613 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3616 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3617 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3621 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3624 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3625 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3626 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3627 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3637 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3644 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3647 (this appears to be logal).
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3651 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3654 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3655 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3656 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3657 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3661 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3667 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3670 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3671 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3672 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3673 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3677 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3683 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3686 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3690 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3697 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3700 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3701 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3702 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3707 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3714 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3720 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3723 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3724 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3725 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3726 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3727 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3728 notice until v2 is complete.
3729 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3730 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3731 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3732 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3733 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3734 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3736 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3737 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3738 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3739 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3743 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3749 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3756 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3759 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3763 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3770 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3773 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3774 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3775 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3776 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3781 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3784 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3785 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3786 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3791 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3794 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3795 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3799 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3802 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3806 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3809 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3813 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3820 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3823 depend on the build and install targets.
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3827 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3830 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3834 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3841 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3847 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3853 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3856 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3857 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3858 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3859 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3860 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3861 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3863 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3864 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3865 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3866 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3867 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3868 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3869 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3873 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3879 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3885 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3888 right place. Closes: #55065
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3892 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3899 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3902 * Copyright date updates.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3906 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3909 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3914 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3920 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3927 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3933 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3939 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3945 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3948 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3949 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3950 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3951 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3952 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3953 bits until all files have been registered.
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3957 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * dh_installmanpages:
3960 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3961 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3962 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3963 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3964 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3965 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3966 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3967 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3968 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3969 otherwise change the result at all.
3971 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3972 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3973 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3974 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3975 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3980 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3986 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3989 act on files that don't exist.
3990 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3991 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3992 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3994 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3995 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3996 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3997 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4001 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4007 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4013 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4016 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4020 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4023 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4025 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4026 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4027 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4031 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4034 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4035 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4036 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4037 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4038 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4039 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4040 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4042 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4044 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4048 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4055 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4061 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4067 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4070 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4074 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4080 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4086 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4089 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4090 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4091 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4092 I made some changes, though:
4093 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4094 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4095 that is a clear violation of policy.
4096 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4097 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4098 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4099 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4100 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4101 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4102 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4103 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4104 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4106 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4110 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4116 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4119 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4123 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4126 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4127 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4132 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4138 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4145 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4148 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4149 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4150 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4151 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4152 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4153 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4154 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4158 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4164 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4168 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4169 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4179 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4182 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4186 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4189 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4190 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4194 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4196 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4201 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4205 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4209 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4212 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4213 for the dependancies to be generated.
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4217 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4220 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4224 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4227 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4228 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4229 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4234 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4237 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4238 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4242 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4254 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4257 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4267 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4270 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4271 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4272 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4273 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4274 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4275 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4276 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4277 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4278 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4279 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4280 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4281 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4285 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4288 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4289 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4291 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4292 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4293 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4294 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4295 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4296 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4298 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4299 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4306 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4310 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4317 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4320 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4325 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4328 for building debhelper.
4329 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4333 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4340 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4343 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4347 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4350 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4351 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4352 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4353 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4354 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4355 it's always available.
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4359 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4362 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4363 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4364 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4368 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4371 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4372 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4376 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4382 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4385 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4389 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4395 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4398 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4399 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4400 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4404 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4407 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4412 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4415 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4416 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4418 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4419 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4423 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4429 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4435 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4438 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4442 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4445 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4446 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4448 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4452 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4455 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4456 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4457 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4461 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4464 things if CDPATH is set.
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4468 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4474 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4477 seems to make sense for the transition.
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4481 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4484 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4489 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4492 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4493 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4497 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4500 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4504 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4507 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4508 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4509 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4510 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4514 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4520 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4523 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4524 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4525 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4526 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4527 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4528 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4529 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4530 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4531 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4532 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4537 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4540 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4541 * README: mention doc/v2
4542 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4543 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4547 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4549 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4550 be using this script RSN.
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4554 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4557 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4558 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4559 more than 1 init script.
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4563 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4566 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4570 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * Changed perl version detection.
4573 * Changed call to find.
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4577 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4579 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4580 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4582 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4587 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * Really include dh_installpam.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4593 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4596 * Wrote man page for same.
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4600 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4603 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4604 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4609 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4616 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4619 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4620 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4621 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4622 x bit was being set!
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4626 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4629 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4630 well. (Closes: 38900)
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4634 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4637 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4638 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4642 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4648 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4650 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4655 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4661 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4664 help from Julian Gilbey.
4665 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4666 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4667 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4668 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4669 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4670 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4671 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4676 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4682 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4689 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4695 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4701 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4704 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4708 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4711 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4715 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4718 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4722 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4728 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4731 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4735 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4741 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4747 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4750 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4751 may be deleted. (#35845)
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4755 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * Various man page enhancements.
4758 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4763 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4766 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4767 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4771 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4774 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4775 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4776 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4778 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4779 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4784 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4790 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * Another very minor typo fix.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4796 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * Very minor typo fix.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4802 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4805 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4806 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4810 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4816 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4819 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4820 variables properly (#34850).
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4824 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4830 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4833 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4834 (automatically generated by build process).
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4838 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4840 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4844 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4847 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4848 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4850 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4854 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4857 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4861 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * README: minor typo fix.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4867 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4870 leave it at that. :-)
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4874 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4880 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4886 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4889 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4890 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4891 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4895 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4898 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4902 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4905 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4909 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4912 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4913 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4914 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4915 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4919 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4922 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4923 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4924 Craig Small for spotting this.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4928 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4931 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4932 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4936 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4942 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4945 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4949 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4951 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4952 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4953 working on the last version of debhelper.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4957 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4960 being made. (#23255)
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4964 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4970 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4973 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4977 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4980 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4981 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4982 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4983 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4987 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4990 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4991 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4992 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4993 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4995 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4996 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4998 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5003 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5009 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5015 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5018 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5019 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5020 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5021 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5022 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5023 suidregister actually supports it.
5024 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5025 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5029 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5036 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5039 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5040 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5041 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5042 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5043 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5044 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5045 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5049 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5051 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5052 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5056 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5059 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5060 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5061 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5062 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5066 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5069 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5071 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5072 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5073 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5074 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5075 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5076 effect, either. (#30118)
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5080 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5086 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5089 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5090 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5094 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5100 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5103 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5104 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5105 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5106 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5110 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5113 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5114 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5118 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5124 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5127 packages, painlessly.
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5131 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5137 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5143 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5149 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * The perl conversion is complete.
5153 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5155 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5156 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5157 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5162 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5165 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5166 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5167 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5171 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5174 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5176 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5178 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5179 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5183 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5186 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5187 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5191 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5197 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5200 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5201 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5202 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5203 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5204 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5208 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5211 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5212 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5213 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5214 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5218 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5221 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5225 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5228 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5229 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5230 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5231 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5232 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5233 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5234 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5235 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5239 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5245 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5248 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5249 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5250 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5255 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5258 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5262 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5265 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5269 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5272 sections of shared libraries.
5273 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5274 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5275 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5276 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5277 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5278 things you don't want them to.
5279 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5280 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5284 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5287 shared libraries. (#26414)
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5291 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5293 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5294 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5295 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5296 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5300 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5304 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5306 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5307 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5308 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5309 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5310 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5314 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5317 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5321 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5324 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5325 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5330 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5333 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5337 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5340 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5341 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5342 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5343 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5344 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5346 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5347 remove debian/files properly.
5348 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5349 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5350 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5351 * Removed bogus menu file.
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5355 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5358 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5362 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5365 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5366 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5367 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5368 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5369 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5370 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5374 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5377 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5378 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5379 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5380 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5384 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5391 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5394 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5395 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5397 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5398 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5399 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5400 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5401 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5402 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5406 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5409 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5410 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5411 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5412 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5413 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5414 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5415 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5416 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5417 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5418 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5419 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5420 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5421 passed any switches.
5422 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5426 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5429 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5430 at all for a long while.
5431 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5432 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5433 large chunks in the process.
5434 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5435 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5436 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5441 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5444 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5446 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5451 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5454 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5455 that don't always have the same files in them.
5456 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5457 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5458 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5462 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5466 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5467 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5468 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5469 updating 27 man pages.
5470 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5471 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5472 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5473 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5474 programs act on. (#25247)
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5478 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5482 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5483 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5484 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5485 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5486 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5487 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5492 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5499 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5506 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5509 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5513 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5519 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5522 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5523 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5524 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5525 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5526 package by accident.
5527 * Is version 1.0 next?
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5531 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5533 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5534 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5535 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5539 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5542 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5543 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5544 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5545 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5546 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5548 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5553 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5556 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5557 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5561 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5564 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5568 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5571 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5572 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5577 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5583 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5586 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5587 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5592 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5598 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5601 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5602 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5603 past week. Thanks, guys!
5605 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5606 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5607 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5608 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5609 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5610 would do in the same situation.
5611 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5612 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5614 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5616 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5617 permissions changed.
5618 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5619 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5620 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5621 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5622 files are treated identically.
5623 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5624 * Minor man page fixes.
5625 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5626 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5627 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5631 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5634 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5635 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5636 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5637 use -X multiple times, too.
5638 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5639 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5643 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5646 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5647 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5651 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5654 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5658 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5661 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5662 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5663 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5664 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5665 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5666 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5667 shape if you're starting a new package.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5671 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5674 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5678 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5681 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5682 because of missing symlinks.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5686 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5692 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5695 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5696 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5697 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5698 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5699 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5701 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5702 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5706 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5708 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5709 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5710 to be changed after the fact :-)
5711 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5715 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5717 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5718 no version string after the -V.
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5722 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5724 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5725 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5730 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5732 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5733 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5737 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5740 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5741 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5742 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5743 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5744 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5745 I always welcome corrections!
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5749 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5755 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5758 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5759 * Documented this new switch.
5761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5763 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5765 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5766 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5767 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5768 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5769 no packages use the old behavior.
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5773 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5776 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5777 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5781 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5784 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5788 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5794 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5797 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5801 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5803 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5804 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5805 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5806 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5810 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5816 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5819 into the source package by accident.
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5823 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5826 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5827 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5828 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5829 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5830 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5831 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5836 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5840 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5841 inspired to implement some of it.
5842 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5846 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5848 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5849 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5853 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5855 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5856 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5857 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5861 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5864 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5865 have done.) (#17598)
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5869 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5875 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5881 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5884 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5888 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5891 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5892 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5896 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5899 argument processor in perl.
5900 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5901 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5902 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5903 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5907 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5909 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5910 type directories. (#16933)
5911 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5912 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5913 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5914 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5915 are supported. (#16935)
5916 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5921 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5924 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5928 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5930 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5932 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5933 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5934 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5935 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5936 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5937 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5941 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5944 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5945 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5947 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5948 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5949 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5950 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5951 a given package, or -i or -a.
5952 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5953 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5954 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5955 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5956 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5957 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5958 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5959 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5960 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5962 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5963 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5964 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5968 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5971 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5972 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5977 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5980 does not have a section.
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5984 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5987 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5988 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5989 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5993 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * Fixed typo #16215.
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5999 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6002 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6003 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6004 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6005 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6006 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6011 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6014 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6015 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6016 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6021 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6027 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6029 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6033 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6036 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6037 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6038 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6039 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6040 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6041 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6045 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6051 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6054 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6058 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6061 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6062 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6063 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6067 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6070 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6074 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6076 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6080 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6083 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6087 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6090 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6094 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6100 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6102 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6103 postinst, postrm, etc.
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6107 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6113 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6116 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6117 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6118 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6119 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6120 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6124 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6127 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6128 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6132 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6135 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6139 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6141 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6142 installing package files into.
6143 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6148 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6150 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6152 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6156 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6162 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6164 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6165 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6169 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6171 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6172 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6173 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6174 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6175 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6179 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6181 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6182 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6183 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6184 multiple binary packages.
6185 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6186 should rebuild them with this version.
6187 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6191 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6193 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6194 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6198 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6201 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6205 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6207 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6208 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6209 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6210 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6211 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6212 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6213 debian/README.debian.
6214 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6215 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6216 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6217 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6218 in a few situations.)
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6222 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6228 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6234 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6236 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6237 * Fixed several man pages.
6239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6241 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6243 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6244 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6245 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6249 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6251 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6252 is ready for general use.
6253 * Added man pages for all commands.
6254 * Multiple binary package support.
6255 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6256 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6257 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6259 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6260 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6261 auto-installed as parameters.
6262 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6264 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6267 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6268 the package build directory it is to act on.
6269 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6270 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6271 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6275 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6277 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6278 ready to replace debstd.
6280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400