1 debhelper (7.0.12) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
3 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
4 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
5 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
6 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:30:49 -0400
10 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
12 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
13 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
14 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
15 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
16 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
17 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
21 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
28 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
30 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
31 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
32 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
33 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
34 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
35 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
36 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
37 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
38 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
39 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
43 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
46 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
47 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
48 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
49 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
51 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
52 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
53 breaking backwards compatability.
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
57 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
64 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
70 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Convert copyright file to new format.
73 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
77 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
80 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
84 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
87 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
88 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
89 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
90 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
91 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
92 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
93 logging by dh_listpackages.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
97 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
100 run and there are no packages of that type.
101 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
102 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
103 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
104 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
106 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
107 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
111 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
113 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
114 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
115 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
119 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
121 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
122 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
123 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
125 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
126 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
127 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
128 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
129 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
130 planned but not yet implemented.)
131 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
132 if the Makefile has such a target.
133 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
134 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
135 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
136 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
137 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
138 but not yet implemented.)
139 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
140 recommended default, especially when using dh.
141 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
142 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
143 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
145 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
147 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
148 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
150 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
151 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
152 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
157 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
160 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
161 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
165 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
167 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
168 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
169 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
173 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
175 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
179 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
185 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
188 just those installed by the program.
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
192 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
195 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
196 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
200 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
203 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
204 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
205 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
206 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
210 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
213 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
214 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
218 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
221 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
222 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
226 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
229 with policy. Closes: #461392
230 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
231 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
232 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
233 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
234 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
238 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
241 Closes: #460340, #460351
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
245 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
248 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
249 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
250 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
251 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
255 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
258 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
259 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
260 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
261 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
262 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
263 package build directory won't work.
264 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
265 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
266 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
267 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
268 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
269 mode. Closes: #459426
270 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
275 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
278 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
282 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
284 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
286 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
287 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
288 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
289 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
290 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
291 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
295 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
298 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
299 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
300 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
301 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
305 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
307 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
308 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
309 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
310 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
311 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
312 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
316 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
319 debian/package.triggers files.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
323 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
326 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
330 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
333 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
334 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
335 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
336 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
341 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
344 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
348 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
351 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
352 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
354 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
359 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
363 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
364 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
365 * Typo. Closes: #441272
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
369 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
376 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
383 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
386 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
388 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
389 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
390 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
392 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
393 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
394 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
398 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
401 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
402 * Update urls to web page.
403 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
405 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
406 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
410 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
413 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
414 - typo in alternatives call
415 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
417 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
418 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
422 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
425 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
430 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
432 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
436 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
442 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
445 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
447 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
448 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
449 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
450 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
451 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
452 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
453 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
454 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
455 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
456 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
457 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
461 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
464 package install. Closes: #415717
465 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
466 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
467 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
468 script and then remove the python files.
469 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
470 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
471 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
472 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
473 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
474 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
475 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
476 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
477 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
478 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
479 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
480 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
481 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
485 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Correct typo in french translation
491 * Typo. Closes: #400571
492 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
494 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
496 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
497 Closes: #406921, #381940
498 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
500 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
501 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
502 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
503 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
504 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
505 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
506 specified). Closes: #381851
507 * Misc minor changes.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
511 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
518 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
519 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
523 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
529 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
530 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
533 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
534 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
536 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
537 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
538 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
539 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
543 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
546 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
549 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
553 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
559 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
565 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
566 a difficult situation.
567 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
568 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
569 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
570 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
571 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
572 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
573 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
574 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
575 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
576 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
580 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Non-maintainer upload.
583 * Update of dh_python
584 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
585 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
587 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
588 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
589 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
590 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
591 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
593 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
595 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Non-maintainer upload.
598 * Update of dh_python
599 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
600 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
601 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
602 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
603 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
604 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
605 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
606 specific python version. Closes: #373853
607 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
608 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
610 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
611 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
612 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
613 the not too-distant future).
614 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
615 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
616 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
617 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
618 thus made the build fail.
620 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
622 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Non-maintainer upload.
625 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
627 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
629 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
632 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
633 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
634 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
635 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
636 package. Closes: #301424
637 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
638 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
639 fonts). Closes: #372686
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
643 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
649 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
650 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
651 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
652 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
653 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
654 above, but already depends on that.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
658 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
661 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
662 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
663 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
664 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
665 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
669 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
675 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
681 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
682 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
686 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
689 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
693 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
697 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
698 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
699 new version (0.24.1).
700 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
701 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
704 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
705 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
706 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
707 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
708 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
709 new directory on their own.
710 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
711 * Fix broken directory removal code.
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
715 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
718 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
719 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
720 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
721 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
725 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
728 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
729 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
730 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
731 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
732 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
736 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
742 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Typo. Closes: #358904
746 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
747 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
751 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
752 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
756 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
758 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
759 || exit 0 instead of the intended
761 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
762 ignored. Closes: #337664
764 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
769 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
775 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
780 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
781 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
782 the dh_installdebconf manpage
783 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
784 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
785 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
786 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
790 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
793 version. Closes: #350607
794 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
795 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
796 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
797 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
801 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
804 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
805 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
806 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
810 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
817 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Minor bug fix from last release.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
823 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
826 language guessing. Closes: #193221
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
830 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
833 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
834 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
835 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
836 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
837 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
838 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
842 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
845 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
846 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
851 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
854 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
858 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
861 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
865 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
868 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
869 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
870 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
871 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
872 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
873 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
877 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
880 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
881 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
882 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
883 link. Closes: #346405
884 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
887 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
888 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
889 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
890 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
891 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
892 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
896 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
903 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
905 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
909 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
912 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
916 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
918 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
919 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
924 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
928 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
929 installed. Closes: #342033
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
933 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
936 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
937 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
938 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
943 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
949 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
955 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
959 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
960 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
961 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
965 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
968 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
973 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
980 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
986 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
988 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
989 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
990 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
991 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
992 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
993 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
994 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
995 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
997 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1001 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1004 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1005 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1009 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1012 in standard man dirs.
1013 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1017 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1023 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1026 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1031 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1038 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1045 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1048 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1049 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1053 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1056 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1057 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1058 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1060 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1062 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1068 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1074 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1077 mode. Closes: #324161
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1081 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1084 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1085 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1086 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1087 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1092 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1095 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1096 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1097 is necesary for sanity.
1098 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1099 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1104 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1106 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1107 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1111 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1114 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1118 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1124 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1127 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1128 released, so use at your own risk.
1129 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1130 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1132 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1133 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1134 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1135 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1136 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1137 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1138 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1139 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1140 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1141 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1142 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1143 including twice per config file line now..
1144 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1145 and simplfy the rules file.
1146 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1147 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1148 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1150 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1151 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1155 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1158 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1162 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1165 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1169 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1172 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1176 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1179 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1180 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1181 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1182 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1183 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1184 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1188 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1191 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1192 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1193 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1198 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1201 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1202 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1207 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1210 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1211 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1212 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1217 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1220 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1221 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1222 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1226 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1232 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1239 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1242 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1243 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1244 unknown. Closes: #282924
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1248 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1255 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Spanish man page updates.
1258 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1263 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1269 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1272 * dh_desktop: reindent
1273 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1274 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1278 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1284 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1286 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1290 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1292 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1296 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1299 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1300 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1304 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1310 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1316 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1323 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1326 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1330 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1333 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1334 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1335 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1336 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1337 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1338 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1340 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1341 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1342 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1343 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1344 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1345 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1346 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1347 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1348 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1349 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1350 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1351 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1352 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1353 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1354 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1355 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1359 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1366 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1369 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1373 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1376 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1380 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1383 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1387 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1390 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1394 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1400 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1406 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1412 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1415 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1416 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1417 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1421 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1424 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1428 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1431 but occasionally right and necessary.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1435 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1438 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1439 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1440 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1441 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1442 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1446 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1449 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1451 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1452 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1453 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1454 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1455 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1456 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1457 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1458 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1459 postinst scripts for udebs.
1460 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1464 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1467 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1469 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1470 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1474 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1480 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1487 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1494 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1497 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1501 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1504 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1508 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1511 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1514 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1515 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1519 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1525 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1528 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1532 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1535 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1536 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1537 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1539 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1541 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1542 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1543 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1547 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1550 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1555 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1558 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1559 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1560 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1565 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1571 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1577 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1580 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1581 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1582 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1583 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1584 associated -dbg packages.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1588 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1591 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1595 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1598 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1602 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1605 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1609 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1612 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1617 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1620 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1624 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1627 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1632 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1635 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1639 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1643 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1644 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1645 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1646 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1647 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1648 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1649 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1650 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1651 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1652 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1656 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1659 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1664 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1667 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1668 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1672 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1675 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1676 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1681 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1684 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1688 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1691 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1695 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1698 out section number. Closes: #204731
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1702 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1709 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1715 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1721 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1724 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1725 removal. Closes: #204286
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1729 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1732 renaming. Closes: #203548
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1736 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1739 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1740 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1744 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1750 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1756 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1762 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1765 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1766 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1767 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1771 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1774 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1775 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1779 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1785 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1792 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1795 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1800 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1803 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1807 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1810 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1812 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1813 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1817 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1820 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1825 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1828 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1832 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1838 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1840 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1844 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1847 it break hard links (see #188663).
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1851 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1854 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1858 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1864 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1868 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1869 debconf-mergetemplates
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1873 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1876 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1880 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1883 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1887 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1890 * Update debhelper(1).
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1894 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1897 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1898 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1899 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1900 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1901 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1905 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1908 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1909 the shell. Closes: #178524
1910 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1914 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1917 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1921 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1924 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1928 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1931 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1932 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1933 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1934 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1939 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1942 files from installation.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1946 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1949 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1950 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1954 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1957 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1961 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1964 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1968 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1974 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1980 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1984 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1985 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1987 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1991 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1994 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1995 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1996 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1997 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2001 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2004 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2008 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2011 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2012 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2016 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2020 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2025 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2031 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2035 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2036 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2037 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2042 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2045 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2046 practice. Closes: #163303
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2050 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2056 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2063 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2066 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2068 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2069 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2070 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2071 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2072 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2076 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2079 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2084 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2090 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2097 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2100 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2105 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2111 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2117 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2123 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2130 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2133 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2134 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2135 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2136 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2141 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2147 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2154 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2157 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2158 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2162 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2165 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2166 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2167 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2168 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2169 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2173 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2176 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2178 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2183 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2186 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2190 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2193 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2194 right thing. Closes: #150644
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2198 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Stupid, evil typo.
2201 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2205 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2212 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2215 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2216 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2221 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2227 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2230 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2234 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2237 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2238 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2243 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2246 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2250 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2256 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2259 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2260 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2264 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Removing perl warning message.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2276 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2279 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2280 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2281 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2282 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2283 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2284 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2285 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2286 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2290 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2296 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2303 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2306 debconf-mergetemplate.
2307 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2308 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2312 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2315 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2316 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2317 dh_install, which ...
2318 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2319 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2320 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2321 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2322 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2323 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2324 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2325 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2326 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2327 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2328 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2329 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2330 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2331 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2332 other minor changes.
2333 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2334 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2335 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2336 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2337 course there's -X ..)
2338 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2339 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2340 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2342 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2343 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2344 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2345 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2346 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2351 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2357 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2360 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2364 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2370 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2376 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2382 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2388 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2391 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2392 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2393 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2394 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2396 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2397 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2401 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2407 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2410 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2414 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2417 upset. Closes: #131322
2419 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2421 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2424 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2425 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2426 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2427 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2428 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2429 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2430 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2431 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2432 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2433 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2434 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2435 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2436 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2437 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2438 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2440 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2444 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2447 - Better indenting of generated code.
2448 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2452 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2456 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2457 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2458 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2459 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2460 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2461 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2462 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2466 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2469 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2473 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2476 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2477 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2478 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2479 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2480 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2481 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2482 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2483 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2484 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2485 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2486 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2487 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2488 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2489 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2490 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2495 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2501 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2504 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2505 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2509 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2512 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2513 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2517 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2523 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2526 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2527 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2528 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2529 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2530 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2535 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2541 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2544 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2548 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2551 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2556 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2562 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2565 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2569 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2575 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2579 Also some indentation fixes.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2583 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2586 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2587 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2588 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2589 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2590 Closes: #106514, #85520
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2594 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2600 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2606 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2612 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2618 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2624 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2627 change it in debhelper v4..
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2631 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2637 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2640 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2644 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2647 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2651 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2657 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2660 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2661 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2662 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2663 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2664 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2665 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2666 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2667 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2668 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2669 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2670 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2671 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2675 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2678 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2682 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2689 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2692 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2693 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2694 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2695 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2696 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2697 program those options go to. So, for example,
2698 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2699 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2700 something complex. Closes: #89311
2701 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2705 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2708 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2709 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2710 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2714 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2717 through loop. Closes: #98598
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2721 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Missing semi-colon.
2724 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2725 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2729 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2732 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2733 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2734 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2738 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2741 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2742 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2746 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2749 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2753 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2756 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2757 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2761 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2764 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2765 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2766 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2770 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2773 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2774 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2775 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2779 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2782 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2786 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2792 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2798 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2804 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2810 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2813 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2817 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2820 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2821 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2822 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2823 followed. Closes: #85483
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2827 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2829 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2830 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2831 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2835 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2838 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2839 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2840 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2841 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2842 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2843 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2844 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2845 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2846 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2847 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2848 Closes: #88464, #77743
2849 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2850 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2851 us to deal with that gracefully.
2852 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2854 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2855 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2856 a while, Closes: #51225
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2860 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2866 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2869 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2873 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2877 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2882 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2885 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2886 don't make packlist files.
2887 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2888 debhelper coding standards.
2889 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2890 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2894 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2897 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2901 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2904 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2905 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2906 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2907 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2908 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2909 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2910 but is mildly deprecated.
2911 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2912 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2913 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2914 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2915 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2916 switching to statoverrides..
2917 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2918 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2919 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2920 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2921 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2922 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2924 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2925 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2926 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2927 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2928 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2929 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2930 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2931 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2932 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2934 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2935 variable names, pod man pages).
2936 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2937 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2938 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2939 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2940 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2941 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2942 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2946 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2952 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2959 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2962 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2966 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2968 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2969 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2970 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2974 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2976 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2977 they were previously ignored.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2981 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2983 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2984 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2988 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2990 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2991 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2992 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2996 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2998 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3002 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3004 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3005 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3009 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3011 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3012 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3013 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3014 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3015 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3016 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3017 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3018 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3019 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3020 it is an obsolete program.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3024 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3026 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3030 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3034 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3036 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3040 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3042 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3044 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3046 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3050 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3056 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * typo: Closes, #78567
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3062 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3068 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3074 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3077 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3078 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3079 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3080 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3081 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3085 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3088 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3093 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3096 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3097 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3098 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3099 backwards-compatability.
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3103 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3106 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3107 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3108 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3109 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3110 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3111 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3113 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3114 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3115 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3117 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3119 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3120 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3121 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3122 should now be raised to severity important..
3123 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3124 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3128 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3131 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3136 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3142 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3148 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3154 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3161 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3164 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3165 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3166 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3167 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3171 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3177 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3180 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3181 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3182 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3183 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3184 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3185 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3190 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3193 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3197 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3203 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3206 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3211 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3214 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3215 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3216 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3217 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3221 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3225 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3228 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3231 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3232 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3235 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3237 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3238 the TODO entry about it.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3242 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3249 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3252 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3253 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3257 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3260 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3261 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3262 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3263 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3267 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3273 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3280 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3283 (this appears to be logal).
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3287 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3290 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3291 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3292 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3293 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3297 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3303 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3306 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3307 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3308 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3309 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3313 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3319 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3322 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3326 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3333 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3336 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3337 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3338 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3343 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3350 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3356 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3359 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3360 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3361 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3362 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3363 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3364 notice until v2 is complete.
3365 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3366 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3367 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3368 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3369 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3370 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3372 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3373 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3374 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3375 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3379 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3385 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3392 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3395 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3399 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3406 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3409 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3410 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3411 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3412 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3417 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3420 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3421 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3422 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3427 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3430 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3431 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3435 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3438 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3442 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3445 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3449 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3456 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3459 depend on the build and install targets.
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3463 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3466 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3470 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3477 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3483 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3489 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3492 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3493 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3494 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3495 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3496 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3497 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3499 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3500 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3501 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3502 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3503 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3504 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3505 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3509 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3515 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3521 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3524 right place. Closes: #55065
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3528 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3535 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3538 * Copyright date updates.
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3542 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3545 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3550 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3556 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3563 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3569 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3575 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3581 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3584 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3585 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3586 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3587 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3588 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3589 bits until all files have been registered.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3593 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * dh_installmanpages:
3596 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3597 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3598 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3599 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3600 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3601 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3602 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3603 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3604 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3605 otherwise change the result at all.
3607 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3608 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3609 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3610 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3611 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3616 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3622 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3625 act on files that don't exist.
3626 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3627 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3628 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3630 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3631 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3632 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3633 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3637 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3643 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3649 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3652 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3656 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3659 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3661 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3662 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3663 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3667 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3670 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3671 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3672 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3673 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3674 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3675 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3676 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3678 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3680 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3684 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3691 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3697 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3703 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3706 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3710 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3716 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3722 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3725 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3726 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3727 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3728 I made some changes, though:
3729 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3730 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3731 that is a clear violation of policy.
3732 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3733 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3734 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3735 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3736 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3737 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3738 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3739 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3740 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3742 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3746 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3752 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3755 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3759 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3762 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3763 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3768 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3774 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3781 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3784 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3785 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3786 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3787 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3788 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3789 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3790 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3794 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3800 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3804 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3805 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3809 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3815 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3818 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3822 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3825 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3826 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3830 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3832 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3837 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3841 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3845 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3848 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3849 for the dependancies to be generated.
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3853 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3856 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3860 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3863 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3864 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3865 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3870 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3873 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3874 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3878 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3884 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3890 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3893 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3897 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3903 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3906 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3907 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3908 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3909 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3910 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3911 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3912 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3913 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3914 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3915 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3916 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3917 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3921 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3924 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3925 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3927 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3928 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3929 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3930 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3931 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3932 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3934 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3935 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3939 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3942 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3946 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3953 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3956 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3961 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3964 for building debhelper.
3965 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3969 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3976 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3979 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3983 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3986 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3987 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3988 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3989 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3990 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3991 it's always available.
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3995 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3998 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3999 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4000 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4004 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4007 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4008 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4012 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4018 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4021 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4025 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4031 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4034 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4035 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4036 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4040 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4043 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4048 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4051 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4052 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4054 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4055 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4059 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4065 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4071 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4074 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4078 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4081 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4082 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4084 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4088 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4091 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4092 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4093 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4097 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4100 things if CDPATH is set.
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4110 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4113 seems to make sense for the transition.
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4117 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4120 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4125 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4128 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4129 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4133 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4136 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4140 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4143 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4144 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4145 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4146 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4156 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4159 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4160 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4161 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4162 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4163 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4164 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4165 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4166 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4167 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4168 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4173 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4176 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4177 * README: mention doc/v2
4178 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4179 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4183 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4185 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4186 be using this script RSN.
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4190 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4193 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4194 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4195 more than 1 init script.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4199 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4202 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4206 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Changed perl version detection.
4209 * Changed call to find.
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4213 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4216 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4218 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4223 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * Really include dh_installpam.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4229 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4232 * Wrote man page for same.
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4236 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4239 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4240 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4245 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4252 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4254 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4255 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4256 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4257 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4258 x bit was being set!
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4262 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4265 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4266 well. (Closes: 38900)
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4270 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4273 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4274 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4278 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4284 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4291 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4297 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4300 help from Julian Gilbey.
4301 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4302 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4303 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4304 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4305 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4306 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4307 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4312 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4318 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4320 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4325 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4331 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4337 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4340 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4344 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4347 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4351 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4354 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4358 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4364 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4367 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4371 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4377 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4383 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4386 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4387 may be deleted. (#35845)
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4391 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * Various man page enhancements.
4394 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4399 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4402 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4403 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4407 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4410 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4411 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4412 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4414 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4415 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4420 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4426 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * Another very minor typo fix.
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4432 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * Very minor typo fix.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4438 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4441 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4442 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4446 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4452 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4455 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4456 variables properly (#34850).
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4460 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4466 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4469 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4470 (automatically generated by build process).
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4474 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4476 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4480 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4483 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4484 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4486 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4490 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4493 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4497 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * README: minor typo fix.
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4503 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4506 leave it at that. :-)
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4510 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4516 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4522 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4525 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4526 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4527 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4531 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4534 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4538 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4541 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4545 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4548 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4549 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4550 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4551 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4555 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4558 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4559 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4560 Craig Small for spotting this.
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4564 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4567 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4568 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4572 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4578 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4581 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4585 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4587 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4588 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4589 working on the last version of debhelper.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4593 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4596 being made. (#23255)
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4600 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4606 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4609 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4613 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4616 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4617 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4618 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4619 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4623 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4626 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4627 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4628 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4629 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4631 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4632 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4634 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4639 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4645 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4651 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4654 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4655 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4656 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4657 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4658 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4659 suidregister actually supports it.
4660 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4661 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4665 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4672 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4675 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4676 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4677 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4678 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4679 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4680 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4681 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4685 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4687 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4688 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4692 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4695 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4696 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4697 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4698 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4702 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4705 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4707 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4708 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4709 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4710 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4711 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4712 effect, either. (#30118)
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4716 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4722 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4725 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4726 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4730 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4736 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4739 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4740 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4741 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4742 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4746 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4749 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4750 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4754 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4760 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4763 packages, painlessly.
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4767 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4773 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4779 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4785 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * The perl conversion is complete.
4789 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4791 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4792 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4793 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4798 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4801 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4802 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4803 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4807 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4810 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4812 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4814 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4815 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4819 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4822 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4823 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4827 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4833 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4835 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4836 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4837 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4838 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4839 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4840 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4844 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4847 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4848 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4849 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4850 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4854 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4857 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4861 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4864 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4865 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4866 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4867 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4868 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4869 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4870 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4871 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4875 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4881 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4883 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4884 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4885 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4886 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4891 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4894 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4898 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4901 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4905 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4908 sections of shared libraries.
4909 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4910 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4911 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4912 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4913 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4914 things you don't want them to.
4915 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4916 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4920 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4923 shared libraries. (#26414)
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4927 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4929 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4930 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4931 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4932 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4936 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4940 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4942 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4943 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4944 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4945 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4946 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4950 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4953 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4957 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4960 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4961 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4966 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4969 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4973 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4976 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4977 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4978 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4979 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4980 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4982 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4983 remove debian/files properly.
4984 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4985 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4986 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4987 * Removed bogus menu file.
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4991 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4994 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4998 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5001 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5002 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5003 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5004 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5005 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5006 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5010 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5013 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5014 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5015 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5016 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5020 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5027 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5030 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5031 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5033 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5034 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5035 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5036 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5037 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5038 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5042 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5045 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5046 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5047 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5048 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5049 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5050 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5051 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5052 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5053 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5054 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5055 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5056 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5057 passed any switches.
5058 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5062 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5065 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5066 at all for a long while.
5067 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5068 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5069 large chunks in the process.
5070 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5071 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5072 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5077 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5079 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5080 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5082 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5087 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5090 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5091 that don't always have the same files in them.
5092 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5093 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5094 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5098 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5102 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5103 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5104 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5105 updating 27 man pages.
5106 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5107 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5108 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5109 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5110 programs act on. (#25247)
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5114 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5118 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5119 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5120 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5121 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5122 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5123 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5128 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5135 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5142 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5145 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5149 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5155 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5158 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5159 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5160 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5161 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5162 package by accident.
5163 * Is version 1.0 next?
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5167 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5170 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5171 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5175 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5178 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5179 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5180 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5181 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5182 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5184 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5189 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5192 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5193 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5197 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5200 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5204 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5207 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5208 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5213 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5215 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5219 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5222 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5223 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5228 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5234 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5237 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5238 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5239 past week. Thanks, guys!
5241 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5242 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5243 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5244 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5245 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5246 would do in the same situation.
5247 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5248 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5250 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5252 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5253 permissions changed.
5254 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5255 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5256 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5257 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5258 files are treated identically.
5259 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5260 * Minor man page fixes.
5261 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5262 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5263 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5267 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5270 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5271 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5272 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5273 use -X multiple times, too.
5274 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5275 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5279 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5282 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5283 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5287 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5290 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5294 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5297 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5298 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5299 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5300 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5301 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5302 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5303 shape if you're starting a new package.
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5307 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5310 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5314 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5317 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5318 because of missing symlinks.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5322 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5328 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5331 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5332 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5333 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5334 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5335 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5337 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5338 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5342 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5344 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5345 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5346 to be changed after the fact :-)
5347 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5351 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5353 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5354 no version string after the -V.
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5358 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5360 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5361 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5366 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5369 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5373 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5376 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5377 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5378 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5379 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5380 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5381 I always welcome corrections!
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5385 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5391 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5394 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5395 * Documented this new switch.
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5399 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5402 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5403 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5404 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5405 no packages use the old behavior.
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5409 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5412 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5413 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5417 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5420 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5424 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5430 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5433 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5437 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5440 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5441 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5442 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5446 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5452 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5454 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5455 into the source package by accident.
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5459 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5462 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5463 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5464 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5465 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5466 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5467 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5472 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5476 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5477 inspired to implement some of it.
5478 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5482 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5485 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5489 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5492 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5493 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5497 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5500 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5501 have done.) (#17598)
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5505 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5507 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5511 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5517 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5520 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5524 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5527 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5528 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5532 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5535 argument processor in perl.
5536 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5537 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5538 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5539 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5543 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5546 type directories. (#16933)
5547 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5548 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5549 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5550 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5551 are supported. (#16935)
5552 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5557 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5560 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5564 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5568 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5569 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5570 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5571 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5572 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5573 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5577 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5580 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5581 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5583 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5584 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5585 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5586 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5587 a given package, or -i or -a.
5588 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5589 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5590 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5591 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5592 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5593 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5594 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5595 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5596 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5598 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5599 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5600 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5604 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5607 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5608 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5613 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5616 does not have a section.
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5620 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5623 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5624 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5625 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5629 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * Fixed typo #16215.
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5635 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5638 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5639 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5640 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5641 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5642 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5647 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5650 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5651 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5652 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5657 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5663 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5669 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5672 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5673 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5674 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5675 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5676 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5677 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5681 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5687 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5690 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5694 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5697 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5698 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5699 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5703 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5706 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5710 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5712 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5716 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5719 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5723 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5726 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5730 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5732 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5736 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5739 postinst, postrm, etc.
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5743 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5749 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5752 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5753 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5754 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5755 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5756 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5760 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5763 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5764 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5768 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5771 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5775 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5778 installing package files into.
5779 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5784 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5788 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5792 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5798 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5801 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5805 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5808 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5809 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5810 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5811 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5815 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5817 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5818 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5819 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5820 multiple binary packages.
5821 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5822 should rebuild them with this version.
5823 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5827 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5830 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5834 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5837 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5841 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5844 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5845 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5846 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5847 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5848 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5849 debian/README.debian.
5850 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5851 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5852 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5853 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5854 in a few situations.)
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5858 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5864 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5870 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5873 * Fixed several man pages.
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5877 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5880 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5881 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5885 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5888 is ready for general use.
5889 * Added man pages for all commands.
5890 * Multiple binary package support.
5891 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5892 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5893 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5895 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5896 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5897 auto-installed as parameters.
5898 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5900 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5903 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5904 the package build directory it is to act on.
5905 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5906 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5907 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5911 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5913 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5914 ready to replace debstd.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400