1 debhelper (7.2.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 May 2009 14:50:33 -0400
8 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
11 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
12 parameters. Closes: #527256
13 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
14 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
15 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
19 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
23 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
24 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
25 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
29 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
32 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
33 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
34 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
38 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
41 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
42 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
44 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
45 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
46 by triggers). Closes: #521181
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
50 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
54 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
58 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
61 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
62 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
63 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
64 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
69 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
75 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
78 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
79 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
80 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
81 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
82 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
84 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
85 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
86 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
87 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
88 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
89 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
93 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
96 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
97 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
98 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
99 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
100 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
102 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
106 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
108 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
112 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
114 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
115 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
116 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
117 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
118 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
119 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
120 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
121 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
122 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
123 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
124 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
128 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
130 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
131 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
133 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
134 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
135 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
136 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
138 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
139 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
143 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
145 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
146 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
147 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
148 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
149 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
150 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
151 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
153 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
154 that uses them. Affected options are:
155 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
156 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
157 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
158 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
159 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
160 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
161 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
162 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
163 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
164 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
165 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
166 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
170 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
177 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
183 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
185 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
186 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
188 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
189 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
190 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
191 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
192 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
194 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
196 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
197 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
198 rules (see bug #509756).
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
202 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
208 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
209 * Typo. Closes: #493062
210 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
211 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
215 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
218 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
219 empty files. Closes: #490937
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
223 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
229 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
236 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
239 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
240 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
241 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
242 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
247 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
249 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
250 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
251 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
252 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
256 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
259 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
260 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
261 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
262 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
263 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
267 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
274 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
276 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
277 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
278 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
279 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
280 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
281 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
282 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
283 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
284 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
285 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
289 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
292 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
293 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
294 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
295 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
297 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
298 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
299 breaking backwards compatability.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
303 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
306 message in perl 5.10.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
310 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
316 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Convert copyright file to new format.
319 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
323 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
326 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
330 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
333 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
334 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
335 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
336 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
337 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
338 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
339 logging by dh_listpackages.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
343 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
346 run and there are no packages of that type.
347 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
348 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
349 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
350 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
352 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
353 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
357 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
359 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
360 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
361 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
365 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
367 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
368 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
369 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
371 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
372 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
373 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
374 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
375 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
376 planned but not yet implemented.)
377 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
378 if the Makefile has such a target.
379 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
380 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
381 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
382 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
383 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
384 but not yet implemented.)
385 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
386 recommended default, especially when using dh.
387 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
388 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
389 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
391 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
393 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
394 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
396 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
397 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
398 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
403 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
406 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
407 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
411 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
413 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
414 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
415 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
419 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
425 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
431 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
434 just those installed by the program.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
438 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
441 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
442 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
446 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
449 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
450 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
451 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
452 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
456 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
459 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
460 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
464 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
467 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
468 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
472 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
475 with policy. Closes: #461392
476 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
477 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
478 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
479 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
480 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
484 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
487 Closes: #460340, #460351
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
491 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
494 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
495 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
496 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
497 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
501 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
504 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
505 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
506 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
507 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
508 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
509 package build directory won't work.
510 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
511 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
512 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
513 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
514 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
515 mode. Closes: #459426
516 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
521 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
524 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
528 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
532 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
533 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
534 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
535 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
536 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
537 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
541 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
544 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
545 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
546 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
547 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
551 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
554 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
555 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
556 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
557 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
558 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
562 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
565 debian/package.triggers files.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
569 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
572 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
576 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
579 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
580 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
581 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
582 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
587 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
590 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
594 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
597 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
598 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
600 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
605 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
609 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
610 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
611 * Typo. Closes: #441272
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
615 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
622 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
629 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
632 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
634 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
635 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
636 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
638 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
639 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
640 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
644 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
647 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
648 * Update urls to web page.
649 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
651 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
652 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
656 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
659 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
660 - typo in alternatives call
661 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
663 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
664 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
668 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
671 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
676 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
682 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
688 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
691 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
693 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
694 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
695 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
696 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
697 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
698 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
699 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
700 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
701 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
702 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
703 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
707 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
710 package install. Closes: #415717
711 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
712 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
713 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
714 script and then remove the python files.
715 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
716 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
717 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
718 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
719 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
720 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
721 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
722 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
723 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
724 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
725 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
726 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
727 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
731 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Correct typo in french translation
737 * Typo. Closes: #400571
738 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
740 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
742 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
743 Closes: #406921, #381940
744 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
746 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
747 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
748 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
749 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
750 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
751 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
752 specified). Closes: #381851
753 * Misc minor changes.
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
757 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
764 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
765 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
769 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
775 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
776 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
779 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
780 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
782 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
783 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
784 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
785 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
789 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
792 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
795 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
799 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
805 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
811 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
812 a difficult situation.
813 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
814 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
815 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
816 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
817 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
818 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
819 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
820 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
821 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
822 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
826 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Non-maintainer upload.
829 * Update of dh_python
830 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
831 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
833 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
834 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
835 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
836 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
837 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
839 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
841 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Non-maintainer upload.
844 * Update of dh_python
845 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
846 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
847 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
848 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
849 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
850 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
851 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
852 specific python version. Closes: #373853
853 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
854 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
856 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
857 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
858 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
859 the not too-distant future).
860 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
861 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
862 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
863 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
864 thus made the build fail.
866 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
868 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Non-maintainer upload.
871 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
873 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
875 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
878 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
879 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
880 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
881 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
882 package. Closes: #301424
883 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
884 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
885 fonts). Closes: #372686
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
889 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
895 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
896 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
897 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
898 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
899 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
900 above, but already depends on that.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
904 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
907 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
908 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
909 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
910 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
911 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
915 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
921 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
927 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
928 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
932 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
935 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
939 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
943 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
944 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
945 new version (0.24.1).
946 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
947 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
950 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
951 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
952 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
953 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
954 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
955 new directory on their own.
956 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
957 * Fix broken directory removal code.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
961 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
964 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
965 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
966 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
967 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
971 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
974 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
975 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
976 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
977 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
978 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
982 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
988 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Typo. Closes: #358904
992 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
993 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
997 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
998 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1002 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1004 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1005 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1007 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1008 ignored. Closes: #337664
1010 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1015 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1021 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1026 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1027 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1028 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1029 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1030 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1031 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1032 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1036 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1039 version. Closes: #350607
1040 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1041 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1042 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1043 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1047 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1050 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1051 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1052 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1056 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1063 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1069 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1072 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1076 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1079 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1080 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1081 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1082 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1083 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1084 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1088 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1091 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1092 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1097 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1100 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1104 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1107 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1111 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1114 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1115 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1116 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1117 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1118 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1119 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1123 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1127 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1128 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1129 link. Closes: #346405
1130 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1132 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1133 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1134 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1135 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1136 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1137 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1138 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1142 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1149 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1155 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1158 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1162 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1165 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1170 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1174 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1175 installed. Closes: #342033
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1179 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1182 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1183 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1184 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1189 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1195 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1201 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1205 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1206 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1207 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1211 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1214 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1219 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1226 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1232 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1235 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1236 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1237 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1238 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1239 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1240 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1241 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1243 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1247 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1250 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1251 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1255 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1258 in standard man dirs.
1259 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1263 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1269 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1272 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1277 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1284 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1291 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1294 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1295 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1299 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1302 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1303 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1304 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1306 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1308 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1314 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1320 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1323 mode. Closes: #324161
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1327 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1330 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1331 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1332 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1333 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1338 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1341 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1342 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1343 is necesary for sanity.
1344 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1345 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1350 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1352 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1353 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1357 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1360 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1364 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1370 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1373 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1374 released, so use at your own risk.
1375 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1376 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1378 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1379 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1380 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1381 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1382 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1383 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1384 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1385 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1386 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1387 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1388 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1389 including twice per config file line now..
1390 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1391 and simplfy the rules file.
1392 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1393 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1394 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1396 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1397 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1401 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1404 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1408 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1411 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1415 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1418 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1422 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1425 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1426 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1427 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1428 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1429 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1430 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1434 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1437 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1438 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1439 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1444 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1447 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1448 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1453 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1456 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1457 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1458 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1463 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1466 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1467 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1468 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1472 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1478 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1485 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1488 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1489 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1490 unknown. Closes: #282924
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1494 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1501 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Spanish man page updates.
1504 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1509 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1515 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1518 * dh_desktop: reindent
1519 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1520 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1524 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1530 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1532 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1536 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1538 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1542 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1545 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1546 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1550 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1556 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1562 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1569 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1572 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1576 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1579 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1580 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1581 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1582 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1583 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1584 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1586 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1587 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1588 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1589 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1590 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1591 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1592 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1593 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1594 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1595 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1596 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1597 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1598 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1599 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1600 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1601 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1605 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1612 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1615 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1619 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1622 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1626 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1629 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1633 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1636 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1640 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1646 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1652 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1658 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1661 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1662 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1663 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1667 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1670 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1674 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1677 but occasionally right and necessary.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1681 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1684 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1685 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1686 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1687 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1688 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1692 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1695 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1697 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1698 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1699 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1700 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1701 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1702 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1703 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1704 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1705 postinst scripts for udebs.
1706 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1710 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1713 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1715 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1716 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1720 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1726 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1733 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1740 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1743 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1747 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1750 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1754 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1757 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1760 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1761 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1765 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1771 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1774 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1778 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1781 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1782 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1783 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1785 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1787 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1788 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1789 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1793 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1796 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1801 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1804 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1805 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1806 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1811 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1817 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1823 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1826 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1827 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1828 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1829 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1830 associated -dbg packages.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1834 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1837 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1841 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1844 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1848 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1851 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1855 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1858 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1863 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1866 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1870 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1873 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1878 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1881 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1885 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1889 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1890 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1891 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1892 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1893 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1894 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1895 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1896 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1897 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1898 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1902 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1905 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1910 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1913 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1914 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1918 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1921 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1922 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1927 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1930 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1934 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1937 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1941 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1944 out section number. Closes: #204731
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1948 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1955 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1961 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1970 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1971 removal. Closes: #204286
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1975 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1978 renaming. Closes: #203548
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1982 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1985 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1986 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1990 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2002 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2008 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2011 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2012 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2013 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2017 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2020 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2021 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2025 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2031 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2038 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2041 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2046 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2049 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2053 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2056 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2058 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2059 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2063 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2066 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2071 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2074 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2078 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2084 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2086 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2090 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2093 it break hard links (see #188663).
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2097 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2100 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2110 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2114 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2115 debconf-mergetemplates
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2119 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2122 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2126 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2129 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2133 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2136 * Update debhelper(1).
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2140 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2143 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2144 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2145 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2146 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2147 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2151 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2154 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2155 the shell. Closes: #178524
2156 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2160 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2163 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2167 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2170 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2174 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2177 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2178 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2179 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2180 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2185 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2188 files from installation.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2192 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2195 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2196 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2200 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2203 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2207 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2210 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2214 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2220 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2226 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2230 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2231 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2233 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2237 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2240 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2241 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2242 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2243 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2247 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2250 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2254 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2257 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2258 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2262 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2266 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2271 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2277 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2281 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2282 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2283 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2288 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2291 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2292 practice. Closes: #163303
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2296 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2302 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2309 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2312 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2314 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2315 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2316 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2317 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2318 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2325 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2330 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2346 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2357 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2363 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2369 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2376 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2379 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2380 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2381 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2382 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2393 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2403 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2404 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2408 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2411 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2412 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2413 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2414 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2415 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2419 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2422 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2424 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2429 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2432 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2436 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2439 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2440 right thing. Closes: #150644
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Stupid, evil typo.
2447 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2451 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2458 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2461 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2462 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2467 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2473 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2476 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2480 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2483 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2484 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2489 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2492 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2496 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2505 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2506 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2510 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2516 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Removing perl warning message.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2525 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2526 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2527 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2528 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2529 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2530 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2531 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2532 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2536 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2542 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2549 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2552 debconf-mergetemplate.
2553 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2554 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2558 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2561 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2562 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2563 dh_install, which ...
2564 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2565 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2566 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2567 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2568 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2569 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2570 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2571 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2572 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2573 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2574 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2575 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2576 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2577 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2578 other minor changes.
2579 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2580 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2581 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2582 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2583 course there's -X ..)
2584 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2585 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2586 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2588 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2589 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2590 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2591 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2592 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2597 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2603 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2606 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2610 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2616 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2622 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2628 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2634 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2637 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2638 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2639 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2640 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2642 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2643 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2647 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2653 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2656 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2660 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2663 upset. Closes: #131322
2665 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2667 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2670 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2671 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2672 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2673 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2674 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2675 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2676 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2677 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2678 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2679 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2680 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2681 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2682 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2683 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2684 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2686 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2690 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2693 - Better indenting of generated code.
2694 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2698 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2702 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2703 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2704 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2705 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2706 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2707 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2708 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2712 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2715 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2719 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2722 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2723 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2724 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2725 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2726 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2727 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2728 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2729 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2730 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2731 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2732 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2733 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2734 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2735 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2736 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2741 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2747 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2750 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2751 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2755 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2758 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2759 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2763 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2769 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2772 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2773 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2774 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2775 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2776 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2781 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2787 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2790 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2794 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2797 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2802 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2808 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2811 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2815 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2821 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2825 Also some indentation fixes.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2829 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2832 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2833 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2834 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2835 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2836 Closes: #106514, #85520
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2840 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2846 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2852 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2858 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2864 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2870 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2873 change it in debhelper v4..
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2877 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2883 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2886 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2890 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2893 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2897 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2903 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2906 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2907 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2908 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2909 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2910 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2911 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2912 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2913 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2914 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2915 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2916 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2917 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2921 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2924 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2928 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2935 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2938 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2939 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2940 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2941 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2942 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2943 program those options go to. So, for example,
2944 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2945 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2946 something complex. Closes: #89311
2947 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2951 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2954 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2955 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2956 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2960 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2963 through loop. Closes: #98598
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2967 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * Missing semi-colon.
2970 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2971 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2975 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2978 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2979 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2980 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2984 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2987 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2988 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2992 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2995 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2999 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3002 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3003 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3007 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3010 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3011 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3012 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3016 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3019 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3020 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3021 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3025 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3028 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3032 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3038 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3044 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3050 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3056 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3059 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3063 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3066 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3067 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3068 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3069 followed. Closes: #85483
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3073 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3075 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3076 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3077 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3081 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3084 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3085 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3086 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3087 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3088 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3089 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3090 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3091 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3092 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3093 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3094 Closes: #88464, #77743
3095 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3096 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3097 us to deal with that gracefully.
3098 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3100 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3101 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3102 a while, Closes: #51225
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3106 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3112 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3115 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3119 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3123 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3128 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3131 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3132 don't make packlist files.
3133 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3134 debhelper coding standards.
3135 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3136 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3140 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3143 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3147 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3150 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3151 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3152 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3153 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3154 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3155 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3156 but is mildly deprecated.
3157 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3158 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3159 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3160 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3161 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3162 switching to statoverrides..
3163 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3164 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3165 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3166 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3167 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3168 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3170 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3171 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3172 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3173 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3174 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3175 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3176 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3177 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3178 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3180 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3181 variable names, pod man pages).
3182 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3183 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3184 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3185 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3186 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3187 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3188 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3192 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3198 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3205 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3208 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3212 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3214 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3215 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3216 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3220 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3222 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3223 they were previously ignored.
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3227 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3229 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3230 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3234 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3236 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3237 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3238 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3242 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3244 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3248 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3250 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3251 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3255 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3257 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3258 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3259 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3260 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3261 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3262 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3263 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3264 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3265 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3266 it is an obsolete program.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3270 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3272 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3276 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3280 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3282 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3286 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3288 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3290 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3292 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3296 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3302 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * typo: Closes, #78567
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3308 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3314 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3320 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3323 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3324 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3325 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3326 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3327 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3331 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3334 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3339 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3342 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3343 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3344 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3345 backwards-compatability.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3349 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3352 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3353 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3354 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3355 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3356 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3357 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3359 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3360 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3361 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3363 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3365 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3366 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3367 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3368 should now be raised to severity important..
3369 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3370 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3374 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3377 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3382 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3388 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3394 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3400 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3407 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3410 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3411 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3412 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3413 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3417 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3423 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3426 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3427 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3428 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3429 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3430 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3431 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3436 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3439 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3443 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3449 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3452 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3457 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3460 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3461 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3462 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3463 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3467 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3471 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3474 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3477 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3478 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3481 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3483 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3484 the TODO entry about it.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3488 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3495 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3498 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3499 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3503 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3506 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3507 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3508 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3509 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3513 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3519 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3526 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3529 (this appears to be logal).
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3533 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3536 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3537 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3538 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3539 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3543 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3549 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3552 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3553 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3554 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3555 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3559 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3565 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3568 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3572 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3579 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3582 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3583 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3584 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3589 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3596 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3602 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3605 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3606 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3607 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3608 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3609 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3610 notice until v2 is complete.
3611 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3612 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3613 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3614 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3615 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3616 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3618 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3619 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3620 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3621 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3625 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3638 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3641 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3645 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3652 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3655 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3656 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3657 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3658 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3663 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3666 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3667 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3668 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3673 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3676 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3677 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3681 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3684 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3688 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3691 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3695 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3702 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3705 depend on the build and install targets.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3709 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3712 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3716 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3723 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3729 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3735 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3738 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3739 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3740 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3741 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3742 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3743 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3745 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3746 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3747 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3748 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3749 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3750 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3751 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3755 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3761 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3767 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3770 right place. Closes: #55065
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3774 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3781 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3784 * Copyright date updates.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3788 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3791 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3796 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3802 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3809 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3815 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3821 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3827 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3830 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3831 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3832 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3833 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3834 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3835 bits until all files have been registered.
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3839 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * dh_installmanpages:
3842 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3843 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3844 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3845 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3846 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3847 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3848 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3849 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3850 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3851 otherwise change the result at all.
3853 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3854 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3855 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3856 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3857 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3862 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3868 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3871 act on files that don't exist.
3872 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3873 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3874 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3876 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3877 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3878 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3879 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3883 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3889 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3895 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3898 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3902 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3905 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3907 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3908 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3909 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3913 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3916 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3917 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3918 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3919 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3920 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3921 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3922 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3924 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3926 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3930 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3937 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3943 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3949 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3952 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3956 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3962 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3968 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3971 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3972 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3973 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3974 I made some changes, though:
3975 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3976 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3977 that is a clear violation of policy.
3978 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3979 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3980 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3981 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3982 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3983 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3984 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3985 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3986 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3988 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3992 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4001 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4005 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4008 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4009 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4014 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4020 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4027 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4030 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4031 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4032 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4033 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4034 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4035 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4036 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4040 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4046 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4050 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4051 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4055 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4061 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4064 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4068 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4071 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4072 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4076 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4078 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4083 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4087 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4091 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4094 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4095 for the dependancies to be generated.
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4099 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4102 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4106 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4109 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4110 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4111 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4116 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4119 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4120 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4124 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4130 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4139 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4143 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4149 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4152 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4153 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4154 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4155 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4156 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4157 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4158 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4159 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4160 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4161 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4162 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4163 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4167 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4170 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4171 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4173 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4174 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4175 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4176 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4177 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4178 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4180 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4181 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4185 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4188 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4192 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4199 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4202 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4207 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4210 for building debhelper.
4211 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4215 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4222 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4225 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4232 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4233 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4234 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4235 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4236 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4237 it's always available.
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4241 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4244 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4245 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4246 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4250 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4253 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4254 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4258 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4264 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4267 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4271 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4280 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4281 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4282 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4286 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4289 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4294 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4297 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4298 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4300 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4301 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4305 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4311 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4317 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4320 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4324 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4327 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4328 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4330 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4334 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4337 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4338 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4339 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4343 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4346 things if CDPATH is set.
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4350 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4356 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4359 seems to make sense for the transition.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4363 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4366 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4371 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4374 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4375 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4379 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4382 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4386 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4389 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4390 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4391 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4392 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4396 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4402 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4405 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4406 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4407 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4408 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4409 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4410 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4411 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4412 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4413 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4414 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4419 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4422 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4423 * README: mention doc/v2
4424 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4425 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4429 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4431 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4432 be using this script RSN.
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4436 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4439 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4440 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4441 more than 1 init script.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4445 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4448 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4452 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * Changed perl version detection.
4455 * Changed call to find.
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4459 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4462 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4464 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4469 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Really include dh_installpam.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4475 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4478 * Wrote man page for same.
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4482 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4485 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4486 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4491 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4498 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4501 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4502 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4503 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4504 x bit was being set!
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4508 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4511 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4512 well. (Closes: 38900)
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4516 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4519 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4520 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4524 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4530 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4537 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4543 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4546 help from Julian Gilbey.
4547 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4548 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4549 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4550 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4551 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4552 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4553 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4558 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4564 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4571 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4577 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4579 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4583 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4586 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4590 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4593 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4597 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4600 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4604 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4610 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4613 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4617 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4623 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4629 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4632 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4633 may be deleted. (#35845)
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4637 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * Various man page enhancements.
4640 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4645 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4648 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4649 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4653 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4656 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4657 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4658 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4660 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4661 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4666 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4672 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * Another very minor typo fix.
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4678 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * Very minor typo fix.
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4684 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4687 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4688 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4692 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4698 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4701 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4702 variables properly (#34850).
4704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4706 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4708 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4712 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4715 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4716 (automatically generated by build process).
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4720 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4722 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4726 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4729 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4730 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4732 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4736 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4739 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4743 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * README: minor typo fix.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4749 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4752 leave it at that. :-)
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4756 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4762 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4768 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4771 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4772 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4773 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4777 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4780 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4784 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4787 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4791 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4794 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4795 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4796 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4797 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4801 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4804 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4805 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4806 Craig Small for spotting this.
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4810 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4813 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4814 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4818 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4824 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4827 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4831 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4833 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4834 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4835 working on the last version of debhelper.
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4839 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4842 being made. (#23255)
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4846 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4852 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4855 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4859 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4862 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4863 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4864 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4865 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4869 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4872 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4873 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4874 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4875 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4877 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4878 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4880 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4885 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4891 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4897 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4900 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4901 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4902 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4903 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4904 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4905 suidregister actually supports it.
4906 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4907 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4911 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4913 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4918 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4921 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4922 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4923 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4924 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4925 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4926 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4927 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4931 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4933 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4934 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4938 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4941 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4942 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4943 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4944 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4948 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4951 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4953 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4954 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4955 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4956 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4957 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4958 effect, either. (#30118)
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4962 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4968 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4971 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4972 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4976 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4982 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4985 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4986 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4987 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4988 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4992 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4995 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4996 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5000 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5006 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5009 packages, painlessly.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5013 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5019 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5025 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5031 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * The perl conversion is complete.
5035 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5037 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5038 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5039 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5044 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5047 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5048 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5049 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5053 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5056 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5058 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5060 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5061 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5065 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5068 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5069 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5073 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5079 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5082 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5083 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5084 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5085 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5086 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5090 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5093 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5094 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5095 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5096 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5100 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5103 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5107 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5110 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5111 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5112 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5113 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5114 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5115 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5116 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5117 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5121 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5127 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5130 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5131 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5132 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5137 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5140 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5144 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5147 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5151 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5154 sections of shared libraries.
5155 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5156 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5157 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5158 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5159 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5160 things you don't want them to.
5161 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5162 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5166 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5169 shared libraries. (#26414)
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5173 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5175 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5176 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5177 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5178 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5182 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5186 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5188 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5189 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5190 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5191 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5192 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5196 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5199 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5203 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5206 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5207 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5212 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5215 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5219 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5222 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5223 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5224 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5225 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5226 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5228 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5229 remove debian/files properly.
5230 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5231 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5232 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5233 * Removed bogus menu file.
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5237 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5240 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5244 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5247 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5248 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5249 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5250 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5251 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5252 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5256 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5259 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5260 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5261 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5262 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5266 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5273 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5276 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5277 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5279 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5280 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5281 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5282 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5283 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5284 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5288 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5291 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5292 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5293 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5294 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5295 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5296 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5297 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5298 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5299 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5300 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5301 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5302 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5303 passed any switches.
5304 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5308 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5311 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5312 at all for a long while.
5313 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5314 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5315 large chunks in the process.
5316 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5317 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5318 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5323 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5326 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5328 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5333 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5335 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5336 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5337 that don't always have the same files in them.
5338 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5339 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5340 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5344 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5348 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5349 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5350 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5351 updating 27 man pages.
5352 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5353 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5354 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5355 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5356 programs act on. (#25247)
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5360 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5364 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5365 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5366 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5367 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5368 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5369 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5374 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5381 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5388 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5391 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5395 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5401 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5404 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5405 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5406 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5407 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5408 package by accident.
5409 * Is version 1.0 next?
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5413 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5416 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5417 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5421 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5424 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5425 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5426 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5427 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5428 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5430 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5435 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5438 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5439 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5443 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5446 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5450 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5453 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5454 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5459 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5465 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5468 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5469 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5474 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5480 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5483 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5484 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5485 past week. Thanks, guys!
5487 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5488 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5489 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5490 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5491 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5492 would do in the same situation.
5493 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5494 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5496 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5498 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5499 permissions changed.
5500 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5501 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5502 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5503 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5504 files are treated identically.
5505 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5506 * Minor man page fixes.
5507 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5508 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5509 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5513 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5516 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5517 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5518 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5519 use -X multiple times, too.
5520 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5521 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5525 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5528 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5529 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5533 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5536 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5540 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5543 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5544 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5545 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5546 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5547 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5548 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5549 shape if you're starting a new package.
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5553 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5556 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5560 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5563 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5564 because of missing symlinks.
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5568 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5574 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5577 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5578 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5579 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5580 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5581 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5583 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5584 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5588 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5590 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5591 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5592 to be changed after the fact :-)
5593 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5597 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5599 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5600 no version string after the -V.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5604 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5606 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5607 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5612 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5615 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5619 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5622 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5623 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5624 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5625 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5626 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5627 I always welcome corrections!
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5631 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5637 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5640 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5641 * Documented this new switch.
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5645 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5648 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5649 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5650 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5651 no packages use the old behavior.
5653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5655 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5657 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5658 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5659 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5663 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5666 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5670 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5676 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5679 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5683 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5686 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5687 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5688 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5692 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5698 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5701 into the source package by accident.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5705 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5708 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5709 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5710 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5711 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5712 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5713 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5718 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5722 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5723 inspired to implement some of it.
5724 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5728 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5731 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5735 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5737 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5738 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5739 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5743 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5746 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5747 have done.) (#17598)
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5751 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5757 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5763 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5765 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5766 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5770 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5773 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5774 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5778 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5781 argument processor in perl.
5782 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5783 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5784 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5785 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5789 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5792 type directories. (#16933)
5793 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5794 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5795 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5796 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5797 are supported. (#16935)
5798 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5803 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5806 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5810 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5814 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5815 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5816 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5817 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5818 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5819 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5823 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5826 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5827 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5829 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5830 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5831 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5832 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5833 a given package, or -i or -a.
5834 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5835 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5836 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5837 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5838 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5839 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5840 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5841 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5842 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5844 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5845 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5846 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5850 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5853 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5854 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5859 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5861 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5862 does not have a section.
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5866 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5869 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5870 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5871 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5875 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * Fixed typo #16215.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5881 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5884 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5885 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5886 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5887 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5888 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5893 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5896 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5897 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5898 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5903 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5909 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5911 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5915 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5917 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5918 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5919 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5920 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5921 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5922 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5923 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5927 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5933 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5936 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5940 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5943 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5944 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5945 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5949 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5952 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5956 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5962 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5965 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5969 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5971 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5972 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5976 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5978 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5982 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5984 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5985 postinst, postrm, etc.
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5989 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5995 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5997 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5998 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5999 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6000 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6001 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6002 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6006 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6009 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6010 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6014 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6017 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6021 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6024 installing package files into.
6025 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6030 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6032 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6034 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6038 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6040 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6044 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6046 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6047 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6051 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6054 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6055 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6056 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6057 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6061 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6063 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6064 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6065 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6066 multiple binary packages.
6067 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6068 should rebuild them with this version.
6069 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6073 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6076 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6080 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6083 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6087 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6090 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6091 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6092 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6093 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6094 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6095 debian/README.debian.
6096 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6097 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6098 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6099 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6100 in a few situations.)
6102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6104 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6106 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6110 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6116 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6118 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6119 * Fixed several man pages.
6121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6123 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6125 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6126 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6127 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6131 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6133 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6134 is ready for general use.
6135 * Added man pages for all commands.
6136 * Multiple binary package support.
6137 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6138 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6139 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6141 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6142 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6143 auto-installed as parameters.
6144 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6146 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6149 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6150 the package build directory it is to act on.
6151 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6152 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6153 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6157 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6159 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6160 ready to replace debstd.
6162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400