1 debhelper (5.0.62) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
5 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
6 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:34:39 -0500
10 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
12 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
13 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
14 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
15 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
16 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
20 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
23 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
24 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
25 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
26 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
27 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
31 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
33 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
34 debian/package.triggers files.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
38 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
41 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
45 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
48 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
49 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
50 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
51 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
56 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
59 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
63 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
66 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
67 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
69 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
74 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
78 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
79 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
80 * Typo. Closes: #441272
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
84 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
91 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
98 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
101 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
103 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
104 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
105 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
107 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
108 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
109 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
113 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
116 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
117 * Update urls to web page.
118 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
120 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
121 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
125 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
128 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
129 - typo in alternatives call
130 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
132 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
133 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
137 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
140 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
145 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
151 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
157 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
160 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
162 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
163 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
164 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
165 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
166 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
167 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
168 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
169 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
170 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
171 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
172 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
176 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
179 package install. Closes: #415717
180 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
181 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
182 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
183 script and then remove the python files.
184 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
185 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
186 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
187 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
188 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
189 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
190 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
191 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
192 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
193 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
194 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
195 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
196 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
200 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Correct typo in french translation
206 * Typo. Closes: #400571
207 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
209 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
211 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
212 Closes: #406921, #381940
213 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
215 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
216 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
217 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
218 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
219 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
220 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
221 specified). Closes: #381851
222 * Misc minor changes.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
226 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
233 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
234 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
238 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
244 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
245 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
248 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
249 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
251 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
252 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
253 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
254 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
258 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
261 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
264 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
268 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
274 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
280 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
281 a difficult situation.
282 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
283 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
284 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
285 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
286 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
287 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
288 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
289 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
290 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
291 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
295 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Non-maintainer upload.
298 * Update of dh_python
299 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
300 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
302 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
303 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
304 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
305 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
306 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
308 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
310 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Non-maintainer upload.
313 * Update of dh_python
314 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
315 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
316 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
317 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
318 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
319 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
320 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
321 specific python version. Closes: #373853
322 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
323 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
325 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
326 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
327 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
328 the not too-distant future).
329 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
330 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
331 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
332 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
333 thus made the build fail.
335 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
337 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Non-maintainer upload.
340 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
342 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
344 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
346 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
347 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
348 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
349 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
350 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
351 package. Closes: #301424
352 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
353 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
354 fonts). Closes: #372686
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
358 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
364 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
365 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
366 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
367 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
368 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
369 above, but already depends on that.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
373 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
376 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
377 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
378 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
379 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
380 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
384 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
390 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
396 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
397 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
401 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
404 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
408 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
412 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
413 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
414 new version (0.24.1).
415 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
416 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
419 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
420 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
421 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
422 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
423 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
424 new directory on their own.
425 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
426 * Fix broken directory removal code.
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
430 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
432 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
433 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
434 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
435 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
436 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
440 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
443 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
444 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
445 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
446 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
447 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
451 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
457 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Typo. Closes: #358904
461 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
462 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
466 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
467 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
471 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
473 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
474 || exit 0 instead of the intended
476 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
477 ignored. Closes: #337664
479 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
484 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
490 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
495 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
496 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
497 the dh_installdebconf manpage
498 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
499 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
500 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
501 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
505 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
508 version. Closes: #350607
509 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
510 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
511 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
512 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
516 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
519 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
520 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
521 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
525 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
532 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Minor bug fix from last release.
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
538 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
541 language guessing. Closes: #193221
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
545 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
548 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
549 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
550 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
551 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
552 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
553 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
557 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
560 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
561 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
566 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
569 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
573 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
576 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
580 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
583 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
584 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
585 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
586 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
587 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
588 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
592 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
595 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
596 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
597 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
598 link. Closes: #346405
599 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
602 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
603 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
604 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
605 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
606 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
607 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
611 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
618 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
620 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
624 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
627 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
631 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
634 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
639 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
643 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
644 installed. Closes: #342033
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
648 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
651 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
652 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
653 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
658 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
664 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
670 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
674 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
675 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
676 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
680 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
683 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
688 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
695 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
701 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
703 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
704 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
705 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
706 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
707 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
708 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
709 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
710 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
712 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
716 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
719 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
720 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
724 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
727 in standard man dirs.
728 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
732 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
738 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
741 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
746 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
753 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
760 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
762 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
763 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
764 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
768 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
770 * NMU with maintainer approval.
771 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
772 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
773 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
775 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
777 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
783 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
789 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
792 mode. Closes: #324161
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
796 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
799 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
800 behavior change. Closes: #249815
801 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
802 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
807 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
810 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
811 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
812 is necesary for sanity.
813 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
814 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
819 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
821 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
822 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
826 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
829 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
833 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
839 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
842 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
843 released, so use at your own risk.
844 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
845 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
847 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
848 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
849 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
850 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
851 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
852 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
853 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
854 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
855 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
856 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
857 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
858 including twice per config file line now..
859 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
860 and simplfy the rules file.
861 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
862 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
863 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
865 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
866 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
870 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
873 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
877 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
880 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
884 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
886 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
887 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
891 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
894 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
895 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
896 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
897 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
898 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
899 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
903 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
906 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
907 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
908 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
913 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
916 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
917 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
922 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
925 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
926 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
927 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
932 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
935 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
936 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
937 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
941 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
947 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
954 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
957 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
958 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
959 unknown. Closes: #282924
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
963 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
970 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
972 * Spanish man page updates.
973 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
978 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
984 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
987 * dh_desktop: reindent
988 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
989 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
993 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
999 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1001 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1005 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1007 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1011 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1014 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1015 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1019 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1025 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1031 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1038 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1041 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1045 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1048 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1049 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1050 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1051 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1052 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1053 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1055 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1056 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1057 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1058 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1059 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1060 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1061 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1062 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1063 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1064 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1065 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1066 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1067 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1068 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1069 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1070 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1074 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1081 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1084 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1088 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1091 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1095 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1098 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1102 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1105 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1109 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1115 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1121 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1127 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1130 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1131 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1132 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1136 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1139 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1143 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1146 but occasionally right and necessary.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1150 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1153 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1154 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1155 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1156 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1157 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1161 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1164 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1166 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1167 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1168 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1169 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1170 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1171 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1172 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1173 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1174 postinst scripts for udebs.
1175 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1179 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1182 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1184 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1185 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1189 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1195 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1202 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1209 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1212 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1216 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1219 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1223 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1226 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1229 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1230 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1234 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1240 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1243 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1247 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1250 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1251 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1252 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1254 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1256 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1257 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1258 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1262 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1265 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1270 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1273 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1274 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1275 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1280 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1286 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1292 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1295 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1296 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1297 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1298 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1299 associated -dbg packages.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1303 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1306 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1310 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1313 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1317 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1320 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1324 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1327 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1332 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1335 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1339 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1342 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1347 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1350 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1354 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1358 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1359 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1360 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1361 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1362 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1363 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1364 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1365 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1366 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1367 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1371 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1374 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1379 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1382 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1383 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1387 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1390 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1391 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1396 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1399 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1403 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1406 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1410 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1413 out section number. Closes: #204731
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1417 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1424 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1430 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1436 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1439 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1440 removal. Closes: #204286
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1444 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1447 renaming. Closes: #203548
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1451 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1454 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1455 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1459 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1465 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1471 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1477 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1480 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1481 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1482 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1486 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1489 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1490 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1494 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1500 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1507 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1510 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1515 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1518 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1522 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1525 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1527 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1528 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1532 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1535 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1540 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1543 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1547 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1553 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1555 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1559 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1562 it break hard links (see #188663).
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1566 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1569 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1573 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1579 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1583 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1584 debconf-mergetemplates
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1588 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1591 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1595 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1598 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1602 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1605 * Update debhelper(1).
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1609 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1612 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1613 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1614 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1615 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1616 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1620 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1623 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1624 the shell. Closes: #178524
1625 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1629 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1632 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1636 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1639 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1643 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1646 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1647 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1648 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1649 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1654 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1657 files from installation.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1661 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1664 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1665 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1669 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1672 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1676 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1679 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1683 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1689 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1695 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1699 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1700 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1702 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1706 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1709 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1710 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1711 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1712 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1716 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1719 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1723 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1726 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1727 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1731 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1735 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1740 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1746 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1750 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1751 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1752 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1757 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1760 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1761 practice. Closes: #163303
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1765 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1771 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1778 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1781 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1783 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1784 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1785 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1786 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1787 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1791 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1794 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1799 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1805 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1812 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1815 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1820 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1826 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1832 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1838 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1845 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1848 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1849 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1850 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1851 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1856 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1862 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1869 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1872 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1873 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1877 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1880 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1881 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1882 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1883 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1884 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1888 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1891 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1893 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1898 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1901 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1908 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1909 right thing. Closes: #150644
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1913 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Stupid, evil typo.
1916 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1920 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1927 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1930 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1931 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1936 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1942 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1945 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1949 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1952 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1953 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1958 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1961 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1965 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1971 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1974 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1975 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1979 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1985 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Removing perl warning message.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1991 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1994 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1995 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1996 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1997 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1998 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1999 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2000 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2001 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2005 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2011 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2018 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2021 debconf-mergetemplate.
2022 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2023 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2030 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2031 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2032 dh_install, which ...
2033 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2034 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2035 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2036 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2037 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2038 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2039 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2040 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2041 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2042 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2043 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2044 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2045 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2046 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2047 other minor changes.
2048 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2049 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2050 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2051 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2052 course there's -X ..)
2053 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2054 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2055 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2057 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2058 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2059 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2060 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2061 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2066 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2072 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2075 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2079 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2085 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2091 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2097 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2103 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2106 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2107 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2108 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2109 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2111 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2112 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2116 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2122 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2125 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2129 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2132 upset. Closes: #131322
2134 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2136 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2139 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2140 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2141 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2142 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2143 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2144 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2145 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2146 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2147 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2148 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2149 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2150 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2151 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2152 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2153 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2155 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2159 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2162 - Better indenting of generated code.
2163 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2167 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2171 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2172 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2173 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2174 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2175 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2176 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2177 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2181 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2184 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2188 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2191 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2192 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2193 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2194 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2195 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2196 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2197 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2198 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2199 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2200 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2201 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2202 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2203 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2204 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2205 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2210 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2216 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2219 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2220 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2224 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2227 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2228 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2232 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2238 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2241 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2242 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2243 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2244 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2245 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2250 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2256 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2259 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2263 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2266 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2271 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2277 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2280 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2284 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2290 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2294 Also some indentation fixes.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2298 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2301 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2302 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2303 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2304 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2305 Closes: #106514, #85520
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2309 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2315 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2321 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2327 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2333 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2339 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2342 change it in debhelper v4..
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2346 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2352 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2355 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2359 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2362 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2366 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2372 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2375 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2376 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2377 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2378 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2379 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2380 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2381 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2382 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2383 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2384 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2385 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2386 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2390 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2393 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2397 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2404 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2407 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2408 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2409 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2410 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2411 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2412 program those options go to. So, for example,
2413 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2414 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2415 something complex. Closes: #89311
2416 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2420 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2423 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2424 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2425 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2429 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2432 through loop. Closes: #98598
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2436 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Missing semi-colon.
2439 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2440 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2444 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2447 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2448 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2449 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2453 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2456 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2457 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2461 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2464 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2468 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2471 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2472 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2476 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2479 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2480 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2481 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2485 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2488 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2489 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2490 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2494 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2497 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2501 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2507 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2513 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2519 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2525 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2528 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2532 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2535 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2536 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2537 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2538 followed. Closes: #85483
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2542 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2544 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2545 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2546 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2550 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2553 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2554 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2555 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2556 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2557 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2558 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2559 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2560 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2561 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2562 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2563 Closes: #88464, #77743
2564 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2565 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2566 us to deal with that gracefully.
2567 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2569 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2570 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2571 a while, Closes: #51225
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2575 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2581 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2584 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2588 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2592 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2597 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2600 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2601 don't make packlist files.
2602 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2603 debhelper coding standards.
2604 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2605 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2609 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2612 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2616 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2619 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2620 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2621 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2622 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2623 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2624 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2625 but is mildly deprecated.
2626 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2627 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2628 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2629 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2630 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2631 switching to statoverrides..
2632 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2633 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2634 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2635 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2636 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2637 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2639 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2640 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2641 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2642 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2643 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2644 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2645 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2646 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2647 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2649 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2650 variable names, pod man pages).
2651 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2652 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2653 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2654 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2655 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2656 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2657 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2661 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2667 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2674 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2677 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2681 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2683 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2684 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2685 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2689 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2691 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2692 they were previously ignored.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2696 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2698 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2699 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2703 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2705 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2706 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2707 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2711 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2713 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2717 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2719 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2720 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2724 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2726 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2727 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2728 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2729 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2730 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2731 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2732 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2733 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2734 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2735 it is an obsolete program.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2739 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2741 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2745 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2749 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2751 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2755 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2757 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2759 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2761 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2765 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2771 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * typo: Closes, #78567
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2777 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2783 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2789 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2792 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2793 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2794 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2795 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2796 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2800 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2803 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2808 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2811 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2812 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2813 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2814 backwards-compatability.
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2818 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2821 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2822 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2823 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2824 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2825 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2826 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2828 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2829 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2830 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2832 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2834 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2835 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2836 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2837 should now be raised to severity important..
2838 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2839 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2843 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2846 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2851 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2857 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2863 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2869 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2876 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2879 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2880 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2881 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2882 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2886 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2892 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2895 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2896 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2897 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2898 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2899 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2900 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2905 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2908 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2912 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2918 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2921 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2926 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2929 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2930 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2931 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2932 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2936 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2940 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2943 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2946 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2947 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2950 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2952 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2953 the TODO entry about it.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2957 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2964 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2967 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2968 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2972 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2975 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2976 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2977 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2978 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2982 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2988 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2995 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2998 (this appears to be logal).
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3002 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3005 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3006 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3007 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3008 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3012 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3018 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3021 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3022 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3023 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3024 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3028 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3034 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3037 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3041 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3048 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3051 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3052 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3053 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3058 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3065 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3071 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3074 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3075 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3076 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3077 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3078 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3079 notice until v2 is complete.
3080 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3081 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3082 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3083 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3084 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3085 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3087 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3088 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3089 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3090 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3094 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3100 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3107 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3110 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3114 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3121 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3124 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3125 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3126 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3127 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3132 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3135 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3136 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3137 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3142 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3145 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3146 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3150 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3153 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3157 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3160 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3164 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3171 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3174 depend on the build and install targets.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3178 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3181 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3185 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3192 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3198 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3204 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3207 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3208 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3209 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3210 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3211 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3212 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3214 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3215 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3216 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3217 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3218 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3219 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3220 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3224 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3230 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3236 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3239 right place. Closes: #55065
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3243 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3250 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3253 * Copyright date updates.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3257 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3260 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3265 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3271 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3278 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3284 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3290 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3296 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3299 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3300 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3301 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3302 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3303 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3304 bits until all files have been registered.
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3308 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * dh_installmanpages:
3311 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3312 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3313 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3314 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3315 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3316 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3317 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3318 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3319 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3320 otherwise change the result at all.
3322 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3323 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3324 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3325 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3326 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3331 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3337 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3340 act on files that don't exist.
3341 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3342 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3343 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3345 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3346 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3347 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3348 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3352 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3358 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3364 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3367 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3371 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3374 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3376 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3377 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3378 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3382 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3385 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3386 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3387 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3388 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3389 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3390 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3391 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3393 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3395 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3399 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3406 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3412 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3418 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3421 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3425 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3431 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3437 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3440 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3441 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3442 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3443 I made some changes, though:
3444 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3445 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3446 that is a clear violation of policy.
3447 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3448 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3449 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3450 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3451 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3452 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3453 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3454 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3455 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3457 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3461 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3467 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3470 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3474 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3477 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3478 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3483 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3489 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3496 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3499 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3500 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3501 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3502 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3503 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3504 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3505 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3509 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3515 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3519 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3520 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3524 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3530 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3533 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3537 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3540 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3541 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3545 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3547 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3552 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3556 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3560 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3563 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3564 for the dependancies to be generated.
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3568 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3571 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3575 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3578 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3579 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3580 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3585 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3588 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3589 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3593 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3599 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3605 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3608 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3612 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3618 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3621 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3622 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3623 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3624 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3625 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3626 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3627 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3628 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3629 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3630 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3631 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3632 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3636 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3639 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3640 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3642 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3643 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3644 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3645 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3646 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3647 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3649 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3650 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3654 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3657 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3661 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3668 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3671 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3676 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3679 for building debhelper.
3680 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3684 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3691 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3694 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3698 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3701 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3702 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3703 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3704 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3705 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3706 it's always available.
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3710 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3713 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3714 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3715 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3719 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3722 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3723 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3727 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3733 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3736 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3740 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3746 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3749 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3750 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3751 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3755 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3758 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3763 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3766 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3767 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3769 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3770 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3774 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3780 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3786 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3789 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3793 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3796 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3797 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3799 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3803 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3806 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3807 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3808 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3812 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3815 things if CDPATH is set.
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3819 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3825 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3828 seems to make sense for the transition.
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3832 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3835 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3840 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3843 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3844 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3848 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3851 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3855 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3858 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3859 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3860 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3861 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3865 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3871 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3874 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3875 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3876 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3877 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3878 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3879 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3880 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3881 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3882 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3883 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3888 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3891 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3892 * README: mention doc/v2
3893 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3894 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3898 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3900 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3901 be using this script RSN.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3905 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3908 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3909 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3910 more than 1 init script.
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3914 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3917 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3921 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * Changed perl version detection.
3924 * Changed call to find.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3928 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3931 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3933 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3938 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * Really include dh_installpam.
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3944 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3947 * Wrote man page for same.
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3951 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3954 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3955 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3960 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3967 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3970 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3971 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3972 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3973 x bit was being set!
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3977 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3980 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3981 well. (Closes: 38900)
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3985 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3988 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3989 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3993 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3999 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4006 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4012 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4015 help from Julian Gilbey.
4016 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4017 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4018 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4019 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4020 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4021 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4022 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4027 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4033 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4040 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4046 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4052 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4055 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4059 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4062 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4066 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4069 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4073 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4079 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4082 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4086 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4092 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4098 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4101 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4102 may be deleted. (#35845)
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4106 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * Various man page enhancements.
4109 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4114 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4117 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4118 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4122 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4125 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4126 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4127 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4129 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4130 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4135 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4141 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * Another very minor typo fix.
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4147 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * Very minor typo fix.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4153 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4156 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4157 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4161 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4167 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4170 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4171 variables properly (#34850).
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4175 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4181 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4184 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4185 (automatically generated by build process).
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4189 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4191 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4195 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4198 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4199 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4201 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4205 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4208 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4212 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * README: minor typo fix.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4218 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4221 leave it at that. :-)
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4225 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4231 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4237 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4240 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4241 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4242 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4246 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4249 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4253 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4256 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4260 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4263 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4264 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4265 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4266 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4270 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4273 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4274 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4275 Craig Small for spotting this.
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4279 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4282 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4283 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4287 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4293 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4296 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4300 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4302 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4303 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4304 working on the last version of debhelper.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4308 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4311 being made. (#23255)
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4315 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4321 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4324 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4328 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4331 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4332 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4333 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4334 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4338 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4341 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4342 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4343 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4344 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4346 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4347 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4349 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4354 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4360 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4366 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4369 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4370 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4371 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4372 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4373 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4374 suidregister actually supports it.
4375 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4376 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4380 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4387 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4390 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4391 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4392 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4393 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4394 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4395 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4396 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4400 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4402 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4403 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4407 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4410 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4411 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4412 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4413 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4417 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4420 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4422 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4423 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4424 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4425 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4426 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4427 effect, either. (#30118)
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4431 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4437 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4440 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4441 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4445 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4451 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4454 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4455 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4456 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4457 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4461 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4464 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4465 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4469 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4475 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4478 packages, painlessly.
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4482 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4488 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4494 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4496 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4500 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * The perl conversion is complete.
4504 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4506 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4507 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4508 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4513 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4516 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4517 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4518 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4522 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4525 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4527 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4529 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4530 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4534 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4537 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4538 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4542 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4548 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4551 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4552 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4553 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4554 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4555 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4559 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4562 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4563 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4564 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4565 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4569 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4572 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4576 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4579 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4580 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4581 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4582 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4583 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4584 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4585 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4586 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4590 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4596 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4599 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4600 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4601 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4606 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4609 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4613 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4616 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4620 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4623 sections of shared libraries.
4624 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4625 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4626 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4627 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4628 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4629 things you don't want them to.
4630 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4631 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4635 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4638 shared libraries. (#26414)
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4642 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4644 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4645 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4646 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4647 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4651 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4655 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4657 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4658 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4659 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4660 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4661 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4665 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4668 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4672 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4675 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4676 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4681 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4684 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4688 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4691 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4692 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4693 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4694 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4695 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4697 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4698 remove debian/files properly.
4699 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4700 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4701 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4702 * Removed bogus menu file.
4704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4706 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4708 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4709 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4713 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4716 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4717 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4718 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4719 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4720 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4721 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4725 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4728 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4729 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4730 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4731 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4735 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4742 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4745 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4746 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4748 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4749 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4750 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4751 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4752 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4753 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4757 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4760 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4761 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4762 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4763 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4764 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4765 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4766 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4767 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4768 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4769 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4770 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4771 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4772 passed any switches.
4773 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4777 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4780 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4781 at all for a long while.
4782 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4783 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4784 large chunks in the process.
4785 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4786 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4787 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4792 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4795 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4797 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4802 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4805 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4806 that don't always have the same files in them.
4807 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4808 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4809 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4813 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4817 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4818 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4819 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4820 updating 27 man pages.
4821 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4822 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4823 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4824 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4825 programs act on. (#25247)
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4829 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4833 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4834 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4835 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4836 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4837 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4838 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4843 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4850 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4857 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4860 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4864 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4870 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4873 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4874 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4875 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4876 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4877 package by accident.
4878 * Is version 1.0 next?
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4882 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4885 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4886 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4890 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4893 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4894 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4895 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4896 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4897 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4899 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4904 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4907 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4908 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4912 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4914 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4915 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4919 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4922 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4923 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4928 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4934 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4937 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4938 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4943 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4949 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4952 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4953 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4954 past week. Thanks, guys!
4956 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4957 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4958 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4959 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4960 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4961 would do in the same situation.
4962 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4963 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4965 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4967 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4968 permissions changed.
4969 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4970 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4971 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4972 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4973 files are treated identically.
4974 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4975 * Minor man page fixes.
4976 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4977 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4978 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4982 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4985 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4986 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4987 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4988 use -X multiple times, too.
4989 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4990 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4994 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4997 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4998 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5002 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5005 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5009 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5012 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5013 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5014 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5015 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5016 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5017 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5018 shape if you're starting a new package.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5022 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5025 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5029 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5032 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5033 because of missing symlinks.
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5037 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5043 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5046 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5047 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5048 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5049 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5050 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5052 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5053 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5057 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5059 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5060 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5061 to be changed after the fact :-)
5062 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5066 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5068 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5069 no version string after the -V.
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5073 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5075 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5076 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5081 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5084 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5088 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5091 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5092 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5093 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5094 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5095 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5096 I always welcome corrections!
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5100 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5106 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5109 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5110 * Documented this new switch.
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5114 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5117 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5118 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5119 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5120 no packages use the old behavior.
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5124 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5127 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5128 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5132 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5135 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5139 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5145 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5148 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5152 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5155 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5156 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5157 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5161 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5167 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5170 into the source package by accident.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5174 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5177 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5178 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5179 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5180 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5181 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5182 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5187 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5191 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5192 inspired to implement some of it.
5193 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5197 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5200 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5204 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5207 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5208 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5212 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5215 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5216 have done.) (#17598)
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5220 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5226 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5232 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5235 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5239 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5242 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5243 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5247 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5250 argument processor in perl.
5251 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5252 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5253 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5254 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5258 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5261 type directories. (#16933)
5262 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5263 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5264 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5265 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5266 are supported. (#16935)
5267 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5272 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5275 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5279 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5283 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5284 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5285 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5286 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5287 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5288 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5292 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5295 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5296 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5298 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5299 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5300 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5301 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5302 a given package, or -i or -a.
5303 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5304 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5305 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5306 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5307 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5308 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5309 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5310 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5311 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5313 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5314 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5315 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5319 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5322 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5323 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5328 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5331 does not have a section.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5335 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5338 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5339 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5340 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5344 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * Fixed typo #16215.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5350 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5353 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5354 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5355 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5356 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5357 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5362 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5365 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5366 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5367 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5372 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5378 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5384 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5387 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5388 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5389 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5390 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5391 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5392 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5396 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5402 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5404 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5405 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5409 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5412 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5413 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5414 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5418 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5421 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5425 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5431 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5434 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5438 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5441 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5445 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5451 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5454 postinst, postrm, etc.
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5458 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5464 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5467 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5468 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5469 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5470 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5471 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5475 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5478 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5479 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5483 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5486 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5490 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5493 installing package files into.
5494 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5499 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5503 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5507 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5513 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5516 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5520 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5523 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5524 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5525 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5526 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5530 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5532 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5533 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5534 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5535 multiple binary packages.
5536 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5537 should rebuild them with this version.
5538 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5542 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5545 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5549 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5552 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5556 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5559 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5560 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5561 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5562 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5563 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5564 debian/README.debian.
5565 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5566 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5567 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5568 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5569 in a few situations.)
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5573 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5579 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5585 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5588 * Fixed several man pages.
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5592 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5595 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5596 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5600 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5603 is ready for general use.
5604 * Added man pages for all commands.
5605 * Multiple binary package support.
5606 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5607 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5608 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5610 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5611 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5612 auto-installed as parameters.
5613 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5615 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5618 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5619 the package build directory it is to act on.
5620 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5621 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5622 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5626 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5628 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5629 ready to replace debstd.
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400