1 debhelper (7.2.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
4 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
5 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
6 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
7 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
8 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
10 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:46:10 -0500
14 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
16 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
20 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
22 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
23 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
24 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
25 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
26 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
27 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
28 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
29 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
30 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
31 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
32 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
36 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
38 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
39 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
41 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
42 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
43 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
44 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
46 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
47 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
51 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
53 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
54 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
55 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
56 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
57 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
58 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
59 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
61 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
62 that uses them. Affected options are:
63 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
64 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
65 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
66 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
67 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
68 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
69 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
70 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
71 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
72 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
73 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
74 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
78 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
85 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
91 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
93 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
94 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
96 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
97 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
98 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
99 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
100 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
102 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
104 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
105 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
106 rules (see bug #509756).
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
110 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
116 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
117 * Typo. Closes: #493062
118 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
119 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
123 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
126 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
127 empty files. Closes: #490937
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
131 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
137 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
144 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
147 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
148 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
149 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
150 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
155 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
157 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
158 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
159 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
160 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
164 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
167 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
168 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
169 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
170 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
171 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
175 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
182 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
184 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
185 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
186 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
187 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
188 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
189 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
190 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
191 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
192 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
193 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
197 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
200 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
201 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
202 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
203 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
205 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
206 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
207 breaking backwards compatability.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
211 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
214 message in perl 5.10.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
218 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
224 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Convert copyright file to new format.
227 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
231 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
234 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
238 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
241 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
242 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
243 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
244 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
245 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
246 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
247 logging by dh_listpackages.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
251 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
254 run and there are no packages of that type.
255 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
256 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
257 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
258 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
260 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
261 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
265 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
267 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
268 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
269 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
273 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
276 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
277 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
279 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
280 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
281 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
282 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
283 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
284 planned but not yet implemented.)
285 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
286 if the Makefile has such a target.
287 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
288 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
289 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
290 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
291 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
292 but not yet implemented.)
293 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
294 recommended default, especially when using dh.
295 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
296 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
297 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
299 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
301 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
302 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
304 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
305 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
306 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
311 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
314 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
315 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
319 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
321 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
322 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
323 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
327 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
333 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
339 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
342 just those installed by the program.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
346 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
349 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
350 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
354 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
357 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
358 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
359 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
360 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
364 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
366 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
367 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
368 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
372 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
375 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
376 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
380 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
383 with policy. Closes: #461392
384 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
385 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
386 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
387 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
388 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
392 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
395 Closes: #460340, #460351
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
399 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
402 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
403 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
404 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
405 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
409 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
412 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
413 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
414 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
415 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
416 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
417 package build directory won't work.
418 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
419 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
420 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
421 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
422 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
423 mode. Closes: #459426
424 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
429 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
432 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
436 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
440 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
441 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
442 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
443 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
444 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
445 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
449 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
452 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
453 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
454 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
455 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
459 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
462 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
463 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
464 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
465 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
466 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
470 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
473 debian/package.triggers files.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
477 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
480 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
484 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
487 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
488 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
489 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
490 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
495 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
498 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
502 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
505 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
506 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
508 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
513 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
517 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
518 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
519 * Typo. Closes: #441272
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
523 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
530 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
537 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
540 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
542 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
543 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
544 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
546 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
547 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
548 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
552 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
555 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
556 * Update urls to web page.
557 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
559 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
560 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
564 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
567 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
568 - typo in alternatives call
569 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
571 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
572 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
576 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
579 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
584 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
590 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
596 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
599 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
601 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
602 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
603 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
604 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
605 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
606 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
607 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
608 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
609 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
610 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
611 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
615 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
618 package install. Closes: #415717
619 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
620 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
621 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
622 script and then remove the python files.
623 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
624 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
625 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
626 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
627 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
628 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
629 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
630 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
631 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
632 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
633 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
634 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
635 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
639 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Correct typo in french translation
645 * Typo. Closes: #400571
646 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
648 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
650 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
651 Closes: #406921, #381940
652 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
654 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
655 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
656 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
657 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
658 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
659 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
660 specified). Closes: #381851
661 * Misc minor changes.
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
665 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
672 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
673 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
677 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
680 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
683 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
684 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
687 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
688 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
690 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
691 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
692 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
693 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
697 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
700 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
703 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
707 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
713 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
719 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
720 a difficult situation.
721 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
722 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
723 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
724 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
725 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
726 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
727 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
728 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
729 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
730 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
734 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Non-maintainer upload.
737 * Update of dh_python
738 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
739 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
741 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
742 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
743 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
744 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
745 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
747 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
749 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Non-maintainer upload.
752 * Update of dh_python
753 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
754 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
755 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
756 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
757 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
758 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
759 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
760 specific python version. Closes: #373853
761 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
762 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
764 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
765 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
766 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
767 the not too-distant future).
768 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
769 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
770 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
771 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
772 thus made the build fail.
774 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
776 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Non-maintainer upload.
779 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
781 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
783 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
786 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
787 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
788 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
789 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
790 package. Closes: #301424
791 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
792 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
793 fonts). Closes: #372686
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
797 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
800 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
803 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
804 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
805 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
806 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
807 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
808 above, but already depends on that.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
812 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
815 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
816 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
817 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
818 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
819 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
823 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
829 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
835 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
836 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
840 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
843 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
847 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
851 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
852 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
853 new version (0.24.1).
854 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
855 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
858 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
859 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
860 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
861 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
862 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
863 new directory on their own.
864 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
865 * Fix broken directory removal code.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
869 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
872 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
873 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
874 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
875 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
879 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
882 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
883 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
884 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
885 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
886 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
890 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
896 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Typo. Closes: #358904
900 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
901 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
905 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
906 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
910 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
912 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
913 || exit 0 instead of the intended
915 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
916 ignored. Closes: #337664
918 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
923 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
929 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
934 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
935 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
936 the dh_installdebconf manpage
937 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
938 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
939 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
940 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
944 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
947 version. Closes: #350607
948 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
949 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
950 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
951 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
955 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
958 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
959 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
960 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
964 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
971 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Minor bug fix from last release.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
977 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
980 language guessing. Closes: #193221
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
984 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
987 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
988 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
989 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
990 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
991 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
992 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
996 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
999 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1000 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1005 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1008 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1012 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1015 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1019 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1022 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1023 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1024 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1025 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1026 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1027 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1031 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1035 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1036 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1037 link. Closes: #346405
1038 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1040 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1041 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1042 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1043 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1044 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1045 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1046 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1050 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1057 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1063 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1066 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1070 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1073 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1078 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1082 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1083 installed. Closes: #342033
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1087 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1090 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1091 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1092 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1097 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1103 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1109 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1113 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1114 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1115 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1119 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1122 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1127 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1134 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1140 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1143 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1144 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1145 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1146 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1147 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1148 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1149 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1151 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1155 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1158 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1159 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1163 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1166 in standard man dirs.
1167 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1171 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1177 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1180 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1185 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1192 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1199 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1202 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1203 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1207 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1210 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1211 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1212 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1214 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1216 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1222 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1228 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1231 mode. Closes: #324161
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1235 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1238 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1239 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1240 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1241 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1246 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1249 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1250 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1251 is necesary for sanity.
1252 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1253 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1258 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1260 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1261 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1265 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1268 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1272 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1278 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1281 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1282 released, so use at your own risk.
1283 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1284 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1286 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1287 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1288 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1289 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1290 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1291 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1292 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1293 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1294 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1295 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1296 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1297 including twice per config file line now..
1298 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1299 and simplfy the rules file.
1300 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1301 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1302 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1304 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1305 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1309 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1312 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1316 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1319 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1323 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1326 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1330 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1333 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1334 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1335 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1336 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1337 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1338 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1342 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1345 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1346 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1347 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1352 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1355 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1356 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1361 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1364 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1365 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1366 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1371 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1374 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1375 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1376 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1380 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1386 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1393 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1396 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1397 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1398 unknown. Closes: #282924
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1402 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1409 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Spanish man page updates.
1412 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1417 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1423 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1426 * dh_desktop: reindent
1427 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1428 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1432 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1438 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1440 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1444 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1446 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1450 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1453 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1454 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1458 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1464 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1470 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1477 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1480 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1484 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1487 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1488 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1489 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1490 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1491 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1492 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1494 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1495 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1496 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1497 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1498 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1499 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1500 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1501 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1502 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1503 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1504 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1505 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1506 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1507 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1508 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1509 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1513 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1520 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1523 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1527 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1530 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1534 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1537 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1541 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1544 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1548 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1554 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1560 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1566 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1569 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1570 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1571 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1575 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1578 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1582 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1585 but occasionally right and necessary.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1589 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1592 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1593 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1594 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1595 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1596 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1600 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1603 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1605 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1606 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1607 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1608 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1609 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1610 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1611 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1612 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1613 postinst scripts for udebs.
1614 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1618 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1621 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1623 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1624 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1628 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1634 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1641 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1648 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1651 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1655 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1658 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1662 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1665 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1668 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1669 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1673 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1679 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1682 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1686 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1689 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1690 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1691 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1693 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1695 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1696 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1697 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1701 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1704 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1709 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1712 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1713 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1714 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1719 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1725 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1731 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1734 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1735 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1736 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1737 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1738 associated -dbg packages.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1742 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1745 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1749 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1752 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1756 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1759 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1763 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1766 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1771 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1774 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1778 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1781 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1786 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1789 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1793 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1797 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1798 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1799 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1800 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1801 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1802 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1803 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1804 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1805 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1806 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1810 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1813 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1818 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1821 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1822 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1826 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1829 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1830 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1835 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1838 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1842 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1845 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1849 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1852 out section number. Closes: #204731
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1856 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1863 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1869 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1875 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1878 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1879 removal. Closes: #204286
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1883 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1886 renaming. Closes: #203548
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1890 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1893 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1894 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1898 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1904 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1910 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1916 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1919 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1920 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1921 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1925 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1928 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1929 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1939 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1946 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1949 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1957 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1961 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1964 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1966 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1967 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1971 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1974 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1979 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1982 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1986 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1994 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2001 it break hard links (see #188663).
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2005 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2008 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2012 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2018 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2022 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2023 debconf-mergetemplates
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2027 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2030 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2034 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2037 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2041 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2044 * Update debhelper(1).
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2048 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2051 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2052 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2053 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2054 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2055 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2059 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2062 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2063 the shell. Closes: #178524
2064 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2068 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2071 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2075 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2078 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2082 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2085 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2086 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2087 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2088 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2093 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2096 files from installation.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2100 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2103 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2104 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2108 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2111 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2115 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2118 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2122 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2128 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2134 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2138 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2139 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2141 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2145 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2148 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2149 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2150 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2151 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2155 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2158 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2162 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2165 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2166 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2170 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2174 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2179 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2185 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2189 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2190 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2191 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2196 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2199 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2200 practice. Closes: #163303
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2204 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2210 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2217 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2220 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2222 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2223 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2224 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2225 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2226 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2230 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2233 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2238 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2244 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2251 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2254 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2259 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2265 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2271 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2277 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2284 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2287 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2288 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2289 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2290 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2295 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2308 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2311 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2312 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2316 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2319 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2320 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2321 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2322 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2323 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2327 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2330 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2332 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2337 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2340 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2344 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2347 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2348 right thing. Closes: #150644
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2352 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Stupid, evil typo.
2355 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2359 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2369 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2370 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2375 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2381 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2384 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2388 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2391 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2392 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2397 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2400 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2404 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2410 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2413 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2414 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Removing perl warning message.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2433 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2434 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2435 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2436 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2437 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2438 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2439 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2440 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2457 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2460 debconf-mergetemplate.
2461 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2462 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2466 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2469 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2470 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2471 dh_install, which ...
2472 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2473 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2474 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2475 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2476 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2477 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2478 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2479 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2480 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2481 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2482 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2483 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2484 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2485 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2486 other minor changes.
2487 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2488 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2489 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2490 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2491 course there's -X ..)
2492 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2493 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2494 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2496 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2497 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2498 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2499 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2500 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2505 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2511 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2514 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2518 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2524 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2530 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2536 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2542 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2545 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2546 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2547 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2548 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2550 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2551 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2555 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2561 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2564 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2568 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2571 upset. Closes: #131322
2573 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2575 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2578 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2579 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2580 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2581 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2582 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2583 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2584 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2585 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2586 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2587 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2588 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2589 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2590 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2591 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2592 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2594 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2598 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2601 - Better indenting of generated code.
2602 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2606 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2610 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2611 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2612 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2613 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2614 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2615 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2616 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2620 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2623 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2627 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2630 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2631 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2632 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2633 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2634 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2635 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2636 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2637 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2638 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2639 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2640 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2641 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2642 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2643 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2644 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2649 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2655 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2658 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2659 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2663 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2666 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2667 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2671 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2677 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2680 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2681 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2682 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2683 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2684 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2689 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2695 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2698 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2702 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2705 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2710 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2716 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2719 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2723 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2729 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2733 Also some indentation fixes.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2737 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2740 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2741 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2742 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2743 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2744 Closes: #106514, #85520
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2748 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2754 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2760 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2766 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2772 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2778 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2781 change it in debhelper v4..
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2785 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2791 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2794 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2798 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2801 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2805 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2811 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2814 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2815 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2816 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2817 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2818 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2819 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2820 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2821 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2822 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2823 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2824 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2825 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2829 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2832 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2836 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2843 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2846 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2847 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2848 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2849 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2850 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2851 program those options go to. So, for example,
2852 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2853 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2854 something complex. Closes: #89311
2855 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2859 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2862 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2863 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2864 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2868 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2871 through loop. Closes: #98598
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2875 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Missing semi-colon.
2878 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2879 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2883 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2886 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2887 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2888 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2892 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2895 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2896 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2900 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2903 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2907 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2910 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2911 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2915 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2918 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2919 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2920 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2924 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2927 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2928 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2929 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2933 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2936 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2940 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2946 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2952 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2958 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2964 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2967 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2971 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2974 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2975 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2976 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2977 followed. Closes: #85483
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2981 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2983 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2984 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2985 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2989 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2992 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2993 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2994 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2995 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2996 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2997 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2998 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2999 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3000 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3001 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3002 Closes: #88464, #77743
3003 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3004 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3005 us to deal with that gracefully.
3006 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3008 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3009 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3010 a while, Closes: #51225
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3014 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3020 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3023 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3027 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3031 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3036 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3039 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3040 don't make packlist files.
3041 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3042 debhelper coding standards.
3043 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3044 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3048 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3051 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3055 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3058 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3059 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3060 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3061 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3062 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3063 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3064 but is mildly deprecated.
3065 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3066 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3067 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3068 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3069 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3070 switching to statoverrides..
3071 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3072 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3073 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3074 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3075 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3076 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3078 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3079 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3080 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3081 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3082 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3083 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3084 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3085 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3086 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3088 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3089 variable names, pod man pages).
3090 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3091 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3092 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3093 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3094 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3095 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3096 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3100 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3106 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3113 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3116 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3120 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3122 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3123 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3124 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3128 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3130 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3131 they were previously ignored.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3135 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3137 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3138 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3142 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3144 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3145 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3146 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3150 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3152 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3156 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3158 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3159 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3163 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3165 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3166 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3167 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3168 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3169 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3170 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3171 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3172 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3173 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3174 it is an obsolete program.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3178 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3180 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3184 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3188 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3190 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3194 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3196 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3198 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3200 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3204 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3210 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * typo: Closes, #78567
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3216 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3222 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3228 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3231 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3232 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3233 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3234 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3235 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3239 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3242 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3247 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3250 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3251 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3252 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3253 backwards-compatability.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3257 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3260 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3261 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3262 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3263 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3264 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3265 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3267 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3268 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3269 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3271 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3273 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3274 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3275 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3276 should now be raised to severity important..
3277 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3278 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3282 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3285 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3290 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3296 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3302 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3308 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3315 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3318 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3319 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3320 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3321 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3325 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3331 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3334 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3335 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3336 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3337 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3338 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3339 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3344 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3347 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3351 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3357 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3360 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3365 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3368 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3369 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3370 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3371 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3375 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3379 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3382 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3385 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3386 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3389 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3391 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3392 the TODO entry about it.
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3396 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3403 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3406 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3407 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3411 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3414 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3415 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3416 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3417 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3421 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3427 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3434 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3437 (this appears to be logal).
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3441 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3444 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3445 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3446 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3447 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3451 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3457 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3460 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3461 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3462 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3463 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3467 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3473 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3476 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3480 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3487 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3490 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3491 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3492 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3497 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3504 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3510 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3513 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3514 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3515 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3516 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3517 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3518 notice until v2 is complete.
3519 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3520 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3521 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3522 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3523 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3524 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3526 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3527 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3528 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3529 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3533 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3539 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3546 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3549 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3553 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3560 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3563 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3564 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3565 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3566 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3571 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3574 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3575 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3576 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3581 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3584 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3585 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3589 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3592 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3596 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3599 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3603 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3610 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3613 depend on the build and install targets.
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3617 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3620 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3624 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3637 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3643 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3646 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3647 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3648 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3649 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3650 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3651 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3653 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3654 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3655 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3656 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3657 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3658 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3659 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3663 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3669 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3675 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3678 right place. Closes: #55065
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3682 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3689 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3692 * Copyright date updates.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3696 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3699 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3704 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3710 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3717 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3723 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3729 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3735 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3738 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3739 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3740 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3741 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3742 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3743 bits until all files have been registered.
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3747 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * dh_installmanpages:
3750 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3751 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3752 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3753 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3754 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3755 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3756 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3757 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3758 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3759 otherwise change the result at all.
3761 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3762 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3763 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3764 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3765 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3776 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3779 act on files that don't exist.
3780 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3781 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3782 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3784 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3785 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3786 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3787 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3791 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3797 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3803 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3806 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3810 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3813 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3815 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3816 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3817 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3821 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3824 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3825 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3826 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3827 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3828 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3829 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3830 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3832 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3834 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3838 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3845 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3851 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3857 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3860 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3864 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3870 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3876 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3879 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3880 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3881 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3882 I made some changes, though:
3883 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3884 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3885 that is a clear violation of policy.
3886 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3887 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3888 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3889 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3890 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3891 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3892 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3893 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3894 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3896 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3900 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3906 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3909 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3913 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3916 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3917 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3922 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3928 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3935 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3938 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3939 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3940 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3941 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3942 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3943 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3944 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3948 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3954 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3958 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3959 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3963 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3969 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3972 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3976 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3979 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3980 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3984 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3986 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3991 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3995 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3999 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4002 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4003 for the dependancies to be generated.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4007 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4010 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4014 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4017 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4018 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4019 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4024 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4027 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4028 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4032 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4044 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4047 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4051 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4057 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4060 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4061 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4062 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4063 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4064 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4065 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4066 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4067 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4068 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4069 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4070 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4071 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4075 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4078 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4079 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4081 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4082 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4083 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4084 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4085 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4086 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4088 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4089 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4093 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4096 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4100 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4107 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4110 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4115 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4118 for building debhelper.
4119 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4123 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4130 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4133 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4137 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4140 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4141 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4142 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4143 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4144 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4145 it's always available.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4149 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4152 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4153 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4154 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4158 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4161 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4162 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4166 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4172 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4175 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4179 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4185 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4188 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4189 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4190 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4194 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4197 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4202 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4205 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4206 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4208 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4209 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4228 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4235 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4236 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4238 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4242 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4245 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4246 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4247 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4251 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4254 things if CDPATH is set.
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4258 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4264 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4267 seems to make sense for the transition.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4271 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4274 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4279 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4282 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4283 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4287 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4290 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4294 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4297 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4298 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4299 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4300 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4304 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4310 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4313 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4314 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4315 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4316 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4317 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4318 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4319 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4320 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4321 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4322 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4327 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4330 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4331 * README: mention doc/v2
4332 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4333 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4337 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4339 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4340 be using this script RSN.
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4344 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4347 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4348 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4349 more than 1 init script.
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4353 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4356 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4360 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * Changed perl version detection.
4363 * Changed call to find.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4367 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4370 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4372 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4377 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * Really include dh_installpam.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4383 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4386 * Wrote man page for same.
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4390 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4393 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4394 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4399 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4406 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4409 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4410 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4411 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4412 x bit was being set!
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4416 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4419 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4420 well. (Closes: 38900)
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4424 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4427 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4428 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4432 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4438 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4445 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4451 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4454 help from Julian Gilbey.
4455 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4456 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4457 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4458 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4459 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4460 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4461 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4466 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4472 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4479 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4485 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4491 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4494 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4498 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4501 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4505 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4508 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4512 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4518 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4521 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4525 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4531 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4537 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4540 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4541 may be deleted. (#35845)
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4545 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * Various man page enhancements.
4548 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4553 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4556 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4557 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4561 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4564 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4565 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4566 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4568 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4569 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4574 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4580 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Another very minor typo fix.
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4586 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * Very minor typo fix.
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4592 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4595 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4596 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4600 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4606 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4609 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4610 variables properly (#34850).
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4614 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4620 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4623 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4624 (automatically generated by build process).
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4628 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4630 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4634 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4637 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4638 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4640 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4644 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4647 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4651 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * README: minor typo fix.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4657 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4660 leave it at that. :-)
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4664 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4670 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4676 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4679 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4680 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4681 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4685 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4687 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4688 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4692 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4695 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4699 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4702 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4703 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4704 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4705 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4709 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4712 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4713 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4714 Craig Small for spotting this.
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4718 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4721 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4722 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4726 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4732 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4735 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4739 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4741 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4742 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4743 working on the last version of debhelper.
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4747 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4750 being made. (#23255)
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4754 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4760 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4763 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4767 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4770 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4771 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4772 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4773 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4777 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4780 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4781 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4782 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4783 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4785 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4786 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4788 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4793 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4799 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4805 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4808 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4809 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4810 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4811 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4812 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4813 suidregister actually supports it.
4814 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4815 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4819 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4826 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4829 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4830 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4831 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4832 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4833 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4834 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4835 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4839 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4841 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4842 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4846 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4849 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4850 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4851 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4852 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4856 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4859 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4861 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4862 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4863 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4864 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4865 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4866 effect, either. (#30118)
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4870 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4876 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4879 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4880 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4884 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4890 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4893 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4894 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4895 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4896 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4900 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4903 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4904 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4908 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4914 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4917 packages, painlessly.
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4921 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4927 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4933 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4939 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * The perl conversion is complete.
4943 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4945 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4946 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4947 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4952 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4955 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4956 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4957 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4961 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4964 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4966 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4968 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4969 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4973 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4976 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4977 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4981 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4987 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4990 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4991 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4992 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4993 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4994 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4998 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5001 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5002 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5003 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5004 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5008 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5011 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5015 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5018 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5019 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5020 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5021 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5022 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5023 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5024 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5025 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5029 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5035 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5038 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5039 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5040 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5045 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5048 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5052 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5055 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5059 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5062 sections of shared libraries.
5063 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5064 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5065 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5066 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5067 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5068 things you don't want them to.
5069 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5070 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5074 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5077 shared libraries. (#26414)
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5081 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5083 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5084 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5085 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5086 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5090 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5094 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5096 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5097 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5098 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5099 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5100 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5104 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5107 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5111 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5114 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5115 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5120 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5123 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5127 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5130 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5131 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5132 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5133 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5134 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5136 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5137 remove debian/files properly.
5138 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5139 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5140 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5141 * Removed bogus menu file.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5145 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5148 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5152 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5155 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5156 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5157 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5158 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5159 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5160 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5164 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5167 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5168 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5169 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5170 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5174 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5181 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5184 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5185 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5187 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5188 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5189 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5190 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5191 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5192 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5196 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5199 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5200 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5201 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5202 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5203 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5204 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5205 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5206 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5207 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5208 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5209 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5210 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5211 passed any switches.
5212 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5216 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5219 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5220 at all for a long while.
5221 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5222 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5223 large chunks in the process.
5224 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5225 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5226 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5231 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5234 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5236 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5241 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5243 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5244 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5245 that don't always have the same files in them.
5246 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5247 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5248 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5252 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5256 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5257 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5258 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5259 updating 27 man pages.
5260 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5261 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5262 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5263 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5264 programs act on. (#25247)
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5268 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5272 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5273 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5274 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5275 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5276 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5277 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5282 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5289 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5296 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5299 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5303 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5309 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5312 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5313 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5314 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5315 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5316 package by accident.
5317 * Is version 1.0 next?
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5321 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5324 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5325 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5329 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5332 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5333 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5334 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5335 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5336 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5338 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5343 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5346 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5347 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5351 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5354 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5358 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5361 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5362 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5367 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5373 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5376 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5377 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5382 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5388 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5391 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5392 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5393 past week. Thanks, guys!
5395 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5396 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5397 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5398 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5399 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5400 would do in the same situation.
5401 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5402 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5404 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5406 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5407 permissions changed.
5408 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5409 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5410 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5411 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5412 files are treated identically.
5413 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5414 * Minor man page fixes.
5415 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5416 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5417 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5421 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5424 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5425 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5426 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5427 use -X multiple times, too.
5428 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5429 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5433 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5436 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5437 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5441 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5444 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5448 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5451 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5452 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5453 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5454 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5455 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5456 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5457 shape if you're starting a new package.
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5461 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5464 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5468 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5471 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5472 because of missing symlinks.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5476 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5482 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5485 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5486 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5487 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5488 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5489 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5491 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5492 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5496 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5498 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5499 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5500 to be changed after the fact :-)
5501 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5505 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5507 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5508 no version string after the -V.
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5512 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5514 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5515 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5520 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5523 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5527 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5530 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5531 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5532 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5533 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5534 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5535 I always welcome corrections!
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5539 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5545 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5548 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5549 * Documented this new switch.
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5553 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5556 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5557 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5558 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5559 no packages use the old behavior.
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5563 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5566 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5567 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5571 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5574 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5578 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5584 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5587 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5591 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5594 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5595 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5596 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5600 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5606 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5609 into the source package by accident.
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5613 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5616 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5617 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5618 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5619 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5620 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5621 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5626 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5630 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5631 inspired to implement some of it.
5632 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5636 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5639 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5643 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5646 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5647 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5651 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5654 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5655 have done.) (#17598)
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5659 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5661 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5665 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5671 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5674 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5678 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5681 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5682 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5686 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5689 argument processor in perl.
5690 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5691 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5692 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5693 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5697 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5700 type directories. (#16933)
5701 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5702 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5703 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5704 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5705 are supported. (#16935)
5706 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5711 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5714 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5718 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5722 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5723 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5724 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5725 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5726 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5727 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5731 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5734 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5735 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5737 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5738 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5739 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5740 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5741 a given package, or -i or -a.
5742 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5743 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5744 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5745 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5746 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5747 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5748 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5749 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5750 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5752 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5753 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5754 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5758 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5761 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5762 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5767 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5770 does not have a section.
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5774 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5777 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5778 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5779 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5783 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * Fixed typo #16215.
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5789 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5792 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5793 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5794 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5795 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5796 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5801 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5803 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5804 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5805 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5806 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5811 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5817 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5823 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5826 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5827 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5828 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5829 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5830 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5831 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5835 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5841 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5844 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5848 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5851 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5852 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5853 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5857 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5860 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5864 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5870 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5873 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5877 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5880 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5884 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5890 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5892 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5893 postinst, postrm, etc.
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5897 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5903 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5906 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5907 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5908 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5909 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5910 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5914 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5917 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5918 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5922 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5924 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5925 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5929 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5931 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5932 installing package files into.
5933 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5938 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5940 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5942 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5946 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5952 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5954 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5955 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5959 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5962 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5963 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5964 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5965 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5969 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5971 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5972 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5973 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5974 multiple binary packages.
5975 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5976 should rebuild them with this version.
5977 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5981 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5983 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5984 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5988 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5991 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5995 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5997 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5998 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5999 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6000 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6001 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6002 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6003 debian/README.debian.
6004 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6005 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6006 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6007 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6008 in a few situations.)
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6012 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6018 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6020 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6024 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6027 * Fixed several man pages.
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6031 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6034 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6035 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6039 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6042 is ready for general use.
6043 * Added man pages for all commands.
6044 * Multiple binary package support.
6045 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6046 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6047 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6049 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6050 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6051 auto-installed as parameters.
6052 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6054 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6057 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6058 the package build directory it is to act on.
6059 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6060 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6061 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6065 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6067 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6068 ready to replace debstd.
6070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400