1 debhelper (7.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
4 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
5 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
6 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
7 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
8 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
9 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
10 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
11 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
12 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
16 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
18 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
19 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
21 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
22 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
23 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
24 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
26 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
27 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
31 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
33 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
34 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
35 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
36 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
37 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
38 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
39 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
41 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
42 that uses them. Affected options are:
43 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
44 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
45 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
46 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
47 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
48 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
49 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
50 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
51 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
52 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
53 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
54 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
58 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
60 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
61 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
63 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
64 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
65 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
66 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
67 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
69 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
71 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
72 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
73 rules (see bug #509756).
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
77 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
83 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
84 * Typo. Closes: #493062
85 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
86 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
90 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
93 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
94 empty files. Closes: #490937
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
98 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
104 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
111 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
114 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
115 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
116 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
117 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
122 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
124 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
125 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
126 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
127 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
131 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
134 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
135 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
136 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
137 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
138 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
142 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
149 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
151 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
152 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
153 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
154 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
155 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
156 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
157 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
158 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
159 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
160 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
164 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
167 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
168 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
169 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
170 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
172 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
173 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
174 breaking backwards compatability.
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
178 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
181 message in perl 5.10.
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
185 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
191 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Convert copyright file to new format.
194 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
198 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
200 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
201 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
205 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
208 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
209 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
210 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
211 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
212 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
213 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
214 logging by dh_listpackages.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
218 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
221 run and there are no packages of that type.
222 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
223 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
224 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
225 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
227 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
228 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
232 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
234 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
235 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
236 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
240 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
243 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
244 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
246 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
247 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
248 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
249 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
250 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
251 planned but not yet implemented.)
252 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
253 if the Makefile has such a target.
254 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
255 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
256 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
257 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
258 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
259 but not yet implemented.)
260 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
261 recommended default, especially when using dh.
262 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
263 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
264 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
266 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
268 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
269 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
271 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
272 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
273 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
278 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
281 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
282 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
286 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
288 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
289 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
290 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
294 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
300 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
306 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
309 just those installed by the program.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
313 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
316 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
317 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
321 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
324 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
325 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
326 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
327 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
331 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
333 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
334 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
335 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
339 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
342 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
343 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
347 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
350 with policy. Closes: #461392
351 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
352 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
353 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
354 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
355 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
359 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
362 Closes: #460340, #460351
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
366 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
369 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
370 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
371 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
372 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
376 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
379 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
380 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
381 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
382 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
383 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
384 package build directory won't work.
385 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
386 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
387 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
388 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
389 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
390 mode. Closes: #459426
391 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
396 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
399 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
403 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
407 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
408 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
409 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
410 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
411 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
412 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
416 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
419 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
420 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
421 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
422 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
426 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
429 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
430 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
431 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
432 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
433 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
437 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
440 debian/package.triggers files.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
444 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
447 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
451 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
454 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
455 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
456 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
457 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
462 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
465 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
469 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
472 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
473 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
475 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
480 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
484 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
485 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
486 * Typo. Closes: #441272
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
490 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
497 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
504 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
507 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
509 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
510 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
511 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
513 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
514 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
515 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
519 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
522 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
523 * Update urls to web page.
524 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
526 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
527 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
531 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
533 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
534 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
535 - typo in alternatives call
536 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
538 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
539 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
543 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
546 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
551 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
557 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
563 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
566 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
568 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
569 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
570 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
571 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
572 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
573 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
574 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
575 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
576 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
577 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
578 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
582 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
585 package install. Closes: #415717
586 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
587 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
588 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
589 script and then remove the python files.
590 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
591 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
592 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
593 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
594 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
595 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
596 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
597 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
598 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
599 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
600 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
601 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
602 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
606 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
609 * Correct typo in french translation
612 * Typo. Closes: #400571
613 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
615 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
617 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
618 Closes: #406921, #381940
619 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
621 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
622 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
623 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
624 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
625 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
626 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
627 specified). Closes: #381851
628 * Misc minor changes.
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
632 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
639 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
640 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
644 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
647 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
650 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
651 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
654 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
655 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
657 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
658 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
659 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
660 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
664 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
667 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
670 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
674 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
680 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
686 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
687 a difficult situation.
688 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
689 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
690 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
691 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
692 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
693 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
694 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
695 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
696 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
697 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
701 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Non-maintainer upload.
704 * Update of dh_python
705 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
706 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
708 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
709 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
710 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
711 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
712 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
714 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
716 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Non-maintainer upload.
719 * Update of dh_python
720 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
721 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
722 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
723 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
724 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
725 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
726 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
727 specific python version. Closes: #373853
728 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
729 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
731 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
732 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
733 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
734 the not too-distant future).
735 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
736 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
737 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
738 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
739 thus made the build fail.
741 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
743 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Non-maintainer upload.
746 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
748 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
750 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
753 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
754 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
755 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
756 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
757 package. Closes: #301424
758 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
759 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
760 fonts). Closes: #372686
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
764 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
770 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
771 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
772 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
773 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
774 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
775 above, but already depends on that.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
779 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
782 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
783 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
784 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
785 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
786 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
790 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
796 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
802 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
803 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
807 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
810 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
814 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
818 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
819 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
820 new version (0.24.1).
821 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
822 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
825 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
826 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
827 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
828 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
829 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
830 new directory on their own.
831 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
832 * Fix broken directory removal code.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
836 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
839 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
840 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
841 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
842 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
846 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
849 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
850 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
851 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
852 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
853 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
857 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
863 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
866 * Typo. Closes: #358904
867 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
868 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
872 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
873 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
877 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
879 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
880 || exit 0 instead of the intended
882 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
883 ignored. Closes: #337664
885 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
890 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
896 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
901 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
902 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
903 the dh_installdebconf manpage
904 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
905 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
906 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
907 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
911 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
914 version. Closes: #350607
915 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
916 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
917 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
918 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
922 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
925 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
926 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
927 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
931 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
938 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
940 * Minor bug fix from last release.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
944 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
947 language guessing. Closes: #193221
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
951 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
953 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
954 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
955 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
956 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
957 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
958 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
959 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
963 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
966 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
967 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
972 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
975 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
979 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
982 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
986 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
989 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
990 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
991 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
992 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
993 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
994 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
998 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1002 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1003 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1004 link. Closes: #346405
1005 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1007 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1008 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1009 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1010 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1011 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1012 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1013 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1017 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1024 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1030 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1033 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1037 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1040 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1045 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1049 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1050 installed. Closes: #342033
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1054 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1057 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1058 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1059 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1064 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1070 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1076 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1080 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1081 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1082 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1086 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1089 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1094 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1101 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1107 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1110 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1111 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1112 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1113 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1114 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1115 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1116 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1118 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1122 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1125 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1126 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1130 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1133 in standard man dirs.
1134 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1138 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1144 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1147 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1152 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1159 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1166 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1169 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1170 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1174 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1177 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1178 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1179 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1181 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1183 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1189 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1195 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1198 mode. Closes: #324161
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1202 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1205 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1206 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1207 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1208 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1213 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1216 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1217 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1218 is necesary for sanity.
1219 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1220 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1225 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1227 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1228 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1232 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1235 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1239 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1245 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1248 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1249 released, so use at your own risk.
1250 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1251 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1253 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1254 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1255 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1256 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1257 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1258 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1259 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1260 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1261 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1262 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1263 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1264 including twice per config file line now..
1265 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1266 and simplfy the rules file.
1267 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1268 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1269 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1271 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1272 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1276 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1279 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1283 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1286 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1290 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1293 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1297 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1300 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1301 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1302 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1303 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1304 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1305 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1309 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1312 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1313 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1314 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1319 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1322 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1323 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1328 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1331 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1332 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1333 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1338 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1341 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1342 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1343 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1347 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1353 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1360 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1363 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1364 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1365 unknown. Closes: #282924
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1369 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1376 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Spanish man page updates.
1379 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1384 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1390 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1393 * dh_desktop: reindent
1394 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1395 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1399 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1405 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1407 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1411 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1413 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1417 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1420 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1421 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1425 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1431 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1437 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1444 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1447 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1451 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1454 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1455 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1456 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1457 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1458 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1459 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1461 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1462 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1463 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1464 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1465 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1466 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1467 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1468 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1469 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1470 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1471 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1472 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1473 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1474 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1475 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1476 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1480 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1487 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1490 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1494 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1497 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1501 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1504 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1508 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1511 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1515 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1521 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1527 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1533 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1536 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1537 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1538 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1542 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1545 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1549 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1552 but occasionally right and necessary.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1556 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1559 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1560 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1561 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1562 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1563 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1567 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1570 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1572 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1573 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1574 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1575 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1576 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1577 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1578 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1579 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1580 postinst scripts for udebs.
1581 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1585 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1588 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1590 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1591 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1595 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1601 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1608 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1615 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1618 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1622 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1625 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1629 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1632 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1635 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1636 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1640 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1646 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1649 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1653 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1656 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1657 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1658 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1660 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1662 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1663 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1664 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1668 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1671 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1676 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1679 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1680 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1681 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1686 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1692 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1698 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1701 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1702 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1703 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1704 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1705 associated -dbg packages.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1709 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1712 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1716 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1719 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1723 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1726 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1730 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1733 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1738 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1741 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1745 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1748 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1753 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1756 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1760 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1764 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1765 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1766 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1767 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1768 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1769 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1770 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1771 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1772 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1773 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1777 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1780 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1785 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1788 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1789 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1793 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1796 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1797 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1802 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1805 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1809 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1812 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1816 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1819 out section number. Closes: #204731
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1823 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1830 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1836 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1842 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1845 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1846 removal. Closes: #204286
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1850 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1853 renaming. Closes: #203548
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1857 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1860 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1861 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1865 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1871 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1877 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1883 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1886 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1887 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1888 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1895 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1896 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1900 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1906 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1913 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1916 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1921 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1924 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1928 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1931 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1933 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1934 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1938 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1941 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1946 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1949 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1959 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1961 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1965 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1968 it break hard links (see #188663).
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1972 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1975 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1979 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1985 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1989 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1990 debconf-mergetemplates
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1994 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1997 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2001 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2004 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2008 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2011 * Update debhelper(1).
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2015 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2018 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2019 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2020 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2021 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2022 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2026 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2029 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2030 the shell. Closes: #178524
2031 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2035 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2038 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2042 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2045 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2049 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2052 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2053 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2054 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2055 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2060 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2063 files from installation.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2067 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2070 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2071 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2075 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2078 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2082 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2085 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2089 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2095 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2101 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2105 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2106 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2108 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2112 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2115 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2116 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2117 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2118 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2122 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2125 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2129 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2132 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2133 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2137 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2141 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2146 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2152 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2156 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2157 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2158 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2163 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2166 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2167 practice. Closes: #163303
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2171 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2177 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2184 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2187 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2189 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2190 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2191 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2192 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2193 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2197 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2200 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2205 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2211 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2218 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2221 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2226 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2238 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2244 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2251 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2254 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2255 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2256 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2257 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2262 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2268 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2278 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2279 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2283 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2286 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2287 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2288 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2289 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2290 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2297 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2299 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2304 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2307 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2311 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2314 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2315 right thing. Closes: #150644
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2319 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Stupid, evil typo.
2322 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2326 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2333 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2336 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2337 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2351 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2355 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2358 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2359 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2364 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2367 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2371 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2377 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2380 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2381 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2385 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Removing perl warning message.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2397 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2400 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2401 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2402 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2403 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2404 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2405 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2406 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2407 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2411 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2417 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2427 debconf-mergetemplate.
2428 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2429 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2433 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2436 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2437 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2438 dh_install, which ...
2439 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2440 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2441 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2442 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2443 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2444 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2445 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2446 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2447 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2448 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2449 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2450 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2451 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2452 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2453 other minor changes.
2454 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2455 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2456 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2457 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2458 course there's -X ..)
2459 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2460 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2461 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2463 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2464 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2465 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2466 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2467 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2472 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2478 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2481 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2485 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2491 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2497 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2503 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2509 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2512 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2513 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2514 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2515 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2517 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2518 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2522 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2528 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2531 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2535 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2538 upset. Closes: #131322
2540 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2542 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2545 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2546 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2547 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2548 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2549 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2550 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2551 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2552 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2553 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2554 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2555 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2556 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2557 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2558 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2559 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2561 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2565 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2568 - Better indenting of generated code.
2569 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2573 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2577 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2578 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2579 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2580 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2581 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2582 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2583 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2587 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2590 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2594 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2597 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2598 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2599 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2600 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2601 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2602 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2603 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2604 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2605 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2606 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2607 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2608 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2609 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2610 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2611 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2616 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2622 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2625 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2626 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2630 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2633 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2634 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2638 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2644 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2647 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2648 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2649 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2650 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2651 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2656 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2662 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2665 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2669 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2672 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2677 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2683 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2686 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2690 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2696 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2700 Also some indentation fixes.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2704 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2707 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2708 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2709 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2710 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2711 Closes: #106514, #85520
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2715 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2721 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2727 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2733 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2739 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2745 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2748 change it in debhelper v4..
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2752 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2758 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2761 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2765 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2768 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2772 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2778 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2781 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2782 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2783 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2784 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2785 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2786 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2787 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2788 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2789 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2790 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2791 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2792 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2796 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2799 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2803 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2810 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2813 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2814 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2815 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2816 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2817 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2818 program those options go to. So, for example,
2819 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2820 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2821 something complex. Closes: #89311
2822 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2826 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2829 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2830 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2831 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2835 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2838 through loop. Closes: #98598
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2842 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Missing semi-colon.
2845 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2846 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2850 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2853 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2854 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2855 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2859 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2862 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2863 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2867 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2870 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2874 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2877 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2878 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2882 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2885 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2886 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2887 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2891 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2894 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2895 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2896 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2900 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2903 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2907 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2913 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2919 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2925 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2931 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2934 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2938 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2941 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2942 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2943 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2944 followed. Closes: #85483
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2948 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2950 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2951 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2952 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2956 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2959 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2960 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2961 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2962 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2963 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2964 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2965 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2966 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2967 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2968 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2969 Closes: #88464, #77743
2970 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2971 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2972 us to deal with that gracefully.
2973 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2975 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2976 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2977 a while, Closes: #51225
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2981 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2987 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2990 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2994 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2998 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3003 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3006 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3007 don't make packlist files.
3008 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3009 debhelper coding standards.
3010 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3011 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3015 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3018 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3022 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3025 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3026 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3027 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3028 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3029 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3030 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3031 but is mildly deprecated.
3032 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3033 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3034 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3035 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3036 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3037 switching to statoverrides..
3038 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3039 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3040 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3041 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3042 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3043 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3045 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3046 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3047 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3048 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3049 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3050 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3051 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3052 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3053 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3055 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3056 variable names, pod man pages).
3057 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3058 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3059 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3060 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3061 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3062 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3063 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3067 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3073 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3080 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3083 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3087 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3089 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3090 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3091 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3095 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3097 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3098 they were previously ignored.
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3102 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3104 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3105 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3109 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3111 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3112 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3113 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3117 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3119 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3123 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3125 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3126 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3130 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3132 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3133 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3134 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3135 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3136 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3137 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3138 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3139 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3140 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3141 it is an obsolete program.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3145 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3147 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3151 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3155 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3157 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3161 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3163 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3165 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3167 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3171 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3177 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * typo: Closes, #78567
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3183 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3189 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3195 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3198 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3199 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3200 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3201 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3202 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3206 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3209 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3214 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3217 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3218 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3219 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3220 backwards-compatability.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3224 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3227 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3228 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3229 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3230 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3231 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3232 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3234 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3235 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3236 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3238 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3240 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3241 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3242 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3243 should now be raised to severity important..
3244 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3245 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3249 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3252 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3257 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3263 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3269 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3275 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3282 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3285 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3286 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3287 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3288 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3292 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3298 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3301 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3302 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3303 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3304 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3305 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3306 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3311 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3314 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3318 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3324 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3327 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3332 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3335 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3336 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3337 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3338 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3342 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3346 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3349 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3352 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3353 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3356 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3358 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3359 the TODO entry about it.
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3363 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3370 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3373 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3374 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3378 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3381 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3382 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3383 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3384 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3388 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3394 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3401 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3404 (this appears to be logal).
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3408 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3411 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3412 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3413 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3414 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3418 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3424 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3427 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3428 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3429 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3430 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3434 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3440 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3443 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3447 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3454 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3457 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3458 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3459 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3464 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3471 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3477 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3480 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3481 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3482 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3483 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3484 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3485 notice until v2 is complete.
3486 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3487 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3488 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3489 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3490 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3491 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3493 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3494 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3495 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3496 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3500 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3506 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3513 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3516 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3520 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3527 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3530 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3531 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3532 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3533 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3538 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3541 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3542 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3543 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3548 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3551 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3552 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3556 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3559 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3563 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3566 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3570 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3577 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3580 depend on the build and install targets.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3584 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3587 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3591 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3598 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3604 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3610 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3613 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3614 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3615 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3616 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3617 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3618 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3620 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3621 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3622 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3623 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3624 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3625 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3626 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3630 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3636 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3642 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3645 right place. Closes: #55065
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3649 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3656 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3659 * Copyright date updates.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3663 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3666 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3671 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3677 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3684 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3690 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3696 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3702 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3705 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3706 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3707 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3708 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3709 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3710 bits until all files have been registered.
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3714 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * dh_installmanpages:
3717 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3718 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3719 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3720 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3721 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3722 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3723 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3724 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3725 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3726 otherwise change the result at all.
3728 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3729 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3730 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3731 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3732 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3737 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3743 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3746 act on files that don't exist.
3747 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3748 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3749 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3751 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3752 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3753 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3754 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3758 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3764 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3773 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3777 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3780 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3782 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3783 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3784 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3788 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3791 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3792 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3793 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3794 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3795 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3796 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3797 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3799 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3801 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3805 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3812 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3818 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3824 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3827 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3831 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3837 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3843 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3846 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3847 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3848 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3849 I made some changes, though:
3850 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3851 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3852 that is a clear violation of policy.
3853 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3854 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3855 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3856 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3857 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3858 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3859 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3860 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3861 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3863 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3867 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3873 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3876 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3880 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3883 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3884 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3889 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3895 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3902 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3905 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3906 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3907 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3908 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3909 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3910 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3911 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3915 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3921 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3925 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3926 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3930 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3936 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3939 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3943 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3946 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3947 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3951 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3953 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3958 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3962 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3966 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3969 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3970 for the dependancies to be generated.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3974 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3977 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3981 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3984 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3985 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3986 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3991 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3994 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3995 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3999 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4005 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4011 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4014 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4018 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4024 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4027 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4028 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4029 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4030 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4031 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4032 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4033 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4034 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4035 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4036 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4037 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4038 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4042 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4045 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4046 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4048 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4049 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4050 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4051 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4052 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4053 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4055 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4056 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4063 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4067 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4074 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4077 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4082 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4085 for building debhelper.
4086 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4090 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4097 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4100 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4107 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4108 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4109 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4110 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4111 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4112 it's always available.
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4116 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4119 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4120 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4121 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4125 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4128 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4129 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4133 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4139 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4142 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4146 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4152 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4155 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4156 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4157 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4161 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4164 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4169 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4172 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4173 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4175 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4176 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4180 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4186 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4192 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4195 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4199 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4202 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4203 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4205 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4209 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4212 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4213 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4214 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4218 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4221 things if CDPATH is set.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4231 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4234 seems to make sense for the transition.
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4238 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4241 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4246 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4249 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4250 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4254 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4257 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4264 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4265 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4266 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4267 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4271 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4280 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4281 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4282 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4283 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4284 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4285 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4286 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4287 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4288 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4289 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4294 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4297 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4298 * README: mention doc/v2
4299 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4300 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4304 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4306 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4307 be using this script RSN.
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4311 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4314 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4315 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4316 more than 1 init script.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4320 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4323 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4327 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * Changed perl version detection.
4330 * Changed call to find.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4334 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4337 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4339 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4344 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * Really include dh_installpam.
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4350 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4353 * Wrote man page for same.
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4357 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4360 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4361 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4366 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4373 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4376 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4377 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4378 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4379 x bit was being set!
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4383 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4386 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4387 well. (Closes: 38900)
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4391 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4394 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4395 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4399 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4405 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4412 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4418 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4421 help from Julian Gilbey.
4422 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4423 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4424 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4425 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4426 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4427 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4428 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4433 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4439 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4446 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4452 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4458 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4461 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4465 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4468 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4472 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4475 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4479 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4485 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4488 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4492 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4498 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4504 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4507 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4508 may be deleted. (#35845)
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4512 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * Various man page enhancements.
4515 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4520 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4523 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4524 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4528 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4531 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4532 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4533 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4535 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4536 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4541 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4547 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * Another very minor typo fix.
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4553 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * Very minor typo fix.
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4559 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4562 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4563 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4567 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4573 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4576 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4577 variables properly (#34850).
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4581 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4587 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4590 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4591 (automatically generated by build process).
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4595 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4597 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4601 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4604 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4605 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4607 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4611 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4614 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4618 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * README: minor typo fix.
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4624 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4627 leave it at that. :-)
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4631 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4637 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4643 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4646 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4647 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4648 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4652 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4655 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4659 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4662 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4666 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4669 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4670 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4671 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4672 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4676 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4679 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4680 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4681 Craig Small for spotting this.
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4685 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4687 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4688 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4689 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4693 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4699 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4702 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4706 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4708 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4709 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4710 working on the last version of debhelper.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4714 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4717 being made. (#23255)
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4721 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4727 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4730 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4734 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4737 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4738 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4739 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4740 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4744 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4747 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4748 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4749 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4750 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4752 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4753 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4755 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4760 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4766 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4772 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4775 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4776 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4777 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4778 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4779 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4780 suidregister actually supports it.
4781 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4782 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4786 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4793 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4796 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4797 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4798 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4799 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4800 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4801 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4802 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4806 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4808 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4809 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4813 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4816 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4817 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4818 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4819 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4823 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4826 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4828 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4829 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4830 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4831 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4832 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4833 effect, either. (#30118)
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4837 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4843 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4846 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4847 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4851 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4857 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4860 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4861 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4862 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4863 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4867 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4870 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4871 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4875 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4881 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4883 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4884 packages, painlessly.
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4888 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4894 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4900 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4906 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * The perl conversion is complete.
4910 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4912 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4913 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4914 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4919 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4922 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4923 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4924 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4928 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4931 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4933 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4935 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4936 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4940 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4943 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4944 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4948 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4954 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4957 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4958 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4959 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4960 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4961 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4965 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4968 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4969 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4970 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4971 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4975 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4978 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4982 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4985 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4986 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4987 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4988 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4989 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4990 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4991 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4992 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4996 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5002 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5005 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5006 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5007 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5012 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5014 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5015 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5019 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5022 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5026 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5029 sections of shared libraries.
5030 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5031 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5032 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5033 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5034 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5035 things you don't want them to.
5036 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5037 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5041 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5044 shared libraries. (#26414)
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5048 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5050 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5051 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5052 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5053 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5057 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5061 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5063 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5064 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5065 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5066 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5067 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5071 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5074 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5078 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5081 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5082 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5087 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5090 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5094 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5097 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5098 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5099 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5100 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5101 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5103 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5104 remove debian/files properly.
5105 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5106 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5107 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5108 * Removed bogus menu file.
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5112 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5115 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5119 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5122 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5123 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5124 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5125 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5126 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5127 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5131 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5134 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5135 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5136 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5137 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5141 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5148 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5151 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5152 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5154 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5155 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5156 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5157 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5158 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5159 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5163 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5166 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5167 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5168 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5169 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5170 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5171 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5172 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5173 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5174 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5175 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5176 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5177 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5178 passed any switches.
5179 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5183 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5186 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5187 at all for a long while.
5188 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5189 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5190 large chunks in the process.
5191 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5192 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5193 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5198 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5201 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5203 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5208 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5211 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5212 that don't always have the same files in them.
5213 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5214 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5215 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5219 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5223 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5224 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5225 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5226 updating 27 man pages.
5227 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5228 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5229 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5230 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5231 programs act on. (#25247)
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5235 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5239 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5240 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5241 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5242 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5243 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5244 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5249 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5256 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5263 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5266 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5270 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5276 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5279 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5280 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5281 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5282 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5283 package by accident.
5284 * Is version 1.0 next?
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5288 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5291 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5292 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5296 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5299 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5300 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5301 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5302 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5303 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5305 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5310 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5313 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5314 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5318 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5321 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5325 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5328 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5329 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5334 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5340 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5343 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5344 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5349 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5355 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5358 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5359 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5360 past week. Thanks, guys!
5362 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5363 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5364 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5365 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5366 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5367 would do in the same situation.
5368 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5369 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5371 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5373 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5374 permissions changed.
5375 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5376 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5377 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5378 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5379 files are treated identically.
5380 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5381 * Minor man page fixes.
5382 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5383 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5384 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5388 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5391 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5392 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5393 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5394 use -X multiple times, too.
5395 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5396 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5400 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5403 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5404 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5408 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5411 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5415 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5418 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5419 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5420 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5421 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5422 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5423 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5424 shape if you're starting a new package.
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5428 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5431 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5435 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5438 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5439 because of missing symlinks.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5443 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5449 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5452 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5453 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5454 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5455 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5456 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5458 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5459 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5463 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5465 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5466 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5467 to be changed after the fact :-)
5468 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5472 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5474 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5475 no version string after the -V.
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5479 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5481 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5482 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5487 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5490 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5494 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5497 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5498 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5499 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5500 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5501 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5502 I always welcome corrections!
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5506 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5512 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5515 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5516 * Documented this new switch.
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5520 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5523 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5524 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5525 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5526 no packages use the old behavior.
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5530 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5533 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5534 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5538 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5540 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5541 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5545 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5551 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5554 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5558 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5561 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5562 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5563 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5567 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5569 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5573 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5576 into the source package by accident.
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5580 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5583 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5584 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5585 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5586 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5587 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5588 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5593 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5597 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5598 inspired to implement some of it.
5599 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5603 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5605 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5606 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5610 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5613 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5614 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5618 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5621 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5622 have done.) (#17598)
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5626 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5632 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5634 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5638 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5641 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5645 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5648 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5649 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5653 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5655 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5656 argument processor in perl.
5657 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5658 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5659 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5660 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5664 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5667 type directories. (#16933)
5668 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5669 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5670 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5671 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5672 are supported. (#16935)
5673 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5678 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5681 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5685 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5689 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5690 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5691 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5692 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5693 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5694 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5698 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5701 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5702 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5704 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5705 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5706 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5707 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5708 a given package, or -i or -a.
5709 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5710 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5711 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5712 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5713 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5714 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5715 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5716 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5717 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5719 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5720 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5721 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5725 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5728 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5729 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5734 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5737 does not have a section.
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5741 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5744 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5745 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5746 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5750 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5752 * Fixed typo #16215.
5754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5756 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5758 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5759 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5760 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5761 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5762 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5763 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5768 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5771 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5772 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5773 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5778 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5784 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5790 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5793 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5794 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5795 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5796 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5797 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5798 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5802 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5808 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5810 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5811 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5815 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5817 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5818 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5819 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5820 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5824 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5827 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5831 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5837 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5840 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5844 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5847 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5851 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5857 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5860 postinst, postrm, etc.
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5864 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5870 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5873 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5874 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5875 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5876 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5877 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5881 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5883 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5884 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5885 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5889 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5892 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5896 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5899 installing package files into.
5900 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5905 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5909 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5913 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5919 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5922 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5926 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5929 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5930 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5931 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5932 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5936 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5938 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5939 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5940 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5941 multiple binary packages.
5942 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5943 should rebuild them with this version.
5944 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5948 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5951 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5955 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5958 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5962 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5965 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5966 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5967 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5968 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5969 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5970 debian/README.debian.
5971 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5972 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5973 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5974 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5975 in a few situations.)
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5979 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5985 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5991 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5994 * Fixed several man pages.
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5998 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6001 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6002 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6006 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6009 is ready for general use.
6010 * Added man pages for all commands.
6011 * Multiple binary package support.
6012 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6013 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6014 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6016 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6017 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6018 auto-installed as parameters.
6019 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6021 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6024 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6025 the package build directory it is to act on.
6026 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6027 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6028 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6032 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6034 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6035 ready to replace debstd.
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400