1 debhelper (7.2.3-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
4 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
5 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
6 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
7 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
8 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
10 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
11 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
12 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
13 * Compatability level 4 is now deprecated.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:57:47 -0500
17 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
20 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
21 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
22 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
23 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
24 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
26 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
30 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
32 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
36 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
38 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
39 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
40 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
41 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
42 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
43 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
44 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
45 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
46 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
47 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
48 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
52 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
54 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
55 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
57 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
58 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
59 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
60 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
62 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
63 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
67 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
69 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
70 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
71 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
72 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
73 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
74 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
75 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
77 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
78 that uses them. Affected options are:
79 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
80 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
81 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
82 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
83 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
84 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
85 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
86 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
87 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
88 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
89 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
90 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
94 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
101 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
107 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
109 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
110 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
112 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
113 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
114 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
115 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
116 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
118 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
120 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
121 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
122 rules (see bug #509756).
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
126 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
132 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
133 * Typo. Closes: #493062
134 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
135 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
139 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
142 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
143 empty files. Closes: #490937
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
147 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
149 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
153 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
160 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
162 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
163 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
164 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
165 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
166 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
171 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
173 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
174 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
175 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
176 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
180 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
183 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
184 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
185 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
186 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
187 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
191 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
193 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
198 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
200 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
201 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
202 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
203 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
204 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
205 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
206 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
207 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
208 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
209 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
213 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
216 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
217 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
218 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
219 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
221 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
222 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
223 breaking backwards compatability.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
227 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
229 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
230 message in perl 5.10.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
234 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
236 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
240 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Convert copyright file to new format.
243 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
247 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
250 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
254 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
257 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
258 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
259 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
260 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
261 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
262 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
263 logging by dh_listpackages.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
267 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
270 run and there are no packages of that type.
271 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
272 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
273 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
274 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
276 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
277 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
281 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
283 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
284 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
285 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
289 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
292 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
293 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
295 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
296 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
297 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
298 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
299 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
300 planned but not yet implemented.)
301 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
302 if the Makefile has such a target.
303 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
304 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
305 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
306 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
307 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
308 but not yet implemented.)
309 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
310 recommended default, especially when using dh.
311 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
312 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
313 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
315 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
317 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
318 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
320 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
321 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
322 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
327 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
330 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
331 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
335 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
337 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
338 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
339 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
343 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
349 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
355 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
358 just those installed by the program.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
362 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
365 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
366 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
370 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
373 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
374 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
375 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
376 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
380 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
383 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
384 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
388 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
391 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
392 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
396 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
399 with policy. Closes: #461392
400 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
401 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
402 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
403 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
404 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
408 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
411 Closes: #460340, #460351
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
415 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
418 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
419 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
420 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
421 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
425 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
428 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
429 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
430 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
431 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
432 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
433 package build directory won't work.
434 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
435 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
436 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
437 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
438 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
439 mode. Closes: #459426
440 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
445 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
448 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
452 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
456 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
457 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
458 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
459 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
460 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
461 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
465 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
467 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
468 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
469 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
470 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
471 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
475 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
477 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
478 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
479 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
480 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
481 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
482 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
486 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
489 debian/package.triggers files.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
493 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
496 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
500 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
503 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
504 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
505 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
506 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
511 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
514 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
518 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
521 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
522 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
524 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
529 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
533 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
534 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
535 * Typo. Closes: #441272
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
539 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
546 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
553 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
556 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
558 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
559 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
560 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
562 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
563 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
564 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
568 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
571 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
572 * Update urls to web page.
573 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
575 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
576 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
580 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
583 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
584 - typo in alternatives call
585 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
587 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
588 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
592 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
595 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
600 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
602 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
606 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
612 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
615 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
617 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
618 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
619 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
620 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
621 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
622 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
623 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
624 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
625 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
626 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
627 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
631 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
634 package install. Closes: #415717
635 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
636 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
637 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
638 script and then remove the python files.
639 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
640 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
641 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
642 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
643 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
644 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
645 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
646 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
647 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
648 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
649 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
650 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
651 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
655 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Correct typo in french translation
661 * Typo. Closes: #400571
662 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
664 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
666 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
667 Closes: #406921, #381940
668 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
670 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
671 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
672 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
673 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
674 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
675 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
676 specified). Closes: #381851
677 * Misc minor changes.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
681 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
688 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
689 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
693 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
699 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
700 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
703 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
704 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
706 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
707 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
708 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
709 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
713 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
716 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
719 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
723 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
729 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
735 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
736 a difficult situation.
737 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
738 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
739 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
740 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
741 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
742 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
743 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
744 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
745 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
746 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
750 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Non-maintainer upload.
753 * Update of dh_python
754 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
755 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
757 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
758 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
759 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
760 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
761 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
763 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
765 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Non-maintainer upload.
768 * Update of dh_python
769 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
770 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
771 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
772 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
773 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
774 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
775 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
776 specific python version. Closes: #373853
777 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
778 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
780 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
781 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
782 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
783 the not too-distant future).
784 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
785 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
786 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
787 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
788 thus made the build fail.
790 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
792 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Non-maintainer upload.
795 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
797 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
799 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
802 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
803 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
804 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
805 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
806 package. Closes: #301424
807 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
808 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
809 fonts). Closes: #372686
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
813 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
819 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
820 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
821 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
822 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
823 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
824 above, but already depends on that.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
828 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
831 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
832 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
833 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
834 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
835 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
839 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
845 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
851 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
852 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
856 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
859 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
863 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
866 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
867 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
868 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
869 new version (0.24.1).
870 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
871 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
874 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
875 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
876 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
877 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
878 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
879 new directory on their own.
880 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
881 * Fix broken directory removal code.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
885 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
888 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
889 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
890 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
891 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
895 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
898 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
899 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
900 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
901 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
902 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
906 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
912 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Typo. Closes: #358904
916 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
917 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
921 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
922 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
926 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
928 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
929 || exit 0 instead of the intended
931 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
932 ignored. Closes: #337664
934 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
939 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
945 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
950 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
951 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
952 the dh_installdebconf manpage
953 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
954 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
955 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
956 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
960 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
963 version. Closes: #350607
964 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
965 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
966 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
967 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
971 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
974 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
975 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
976 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
980 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
987 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Minor bug fix from last release.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
993 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
996 language guessing. Closes: #193221
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1000 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1003 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1004 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1005 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1006 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1007 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1008 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1012 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1015 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1016 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1021 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1024 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1028 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1031 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1035 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1038 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1039 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1040 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1041 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1042 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1043 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1047 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1051 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1052 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1053 link. Closes: #346405
1054 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1056 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1057 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1058 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1059 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1060 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1061 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1062 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1066 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1073 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1079 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1082 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1086 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1089 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1094 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1098 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1099 installed. Closes: #342033
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1103 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1106 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1107 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1108 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1113 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1119 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1125 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1129 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1130 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1131 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1135 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1138 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1143 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1150 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1156 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1159 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1160 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1161 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1162 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1163 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1164 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1165 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1167 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1171 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1174 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1175 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1179 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1182 in standard man dirs.
1183 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1187 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1193 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1196 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1201 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1208 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1215 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1218 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1219 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1223 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1226 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1227 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1228 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1230 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1232 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1238 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1244 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1247 mode. Closes: #324161
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1251 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1254 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1255 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1256 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1257 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1262 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1265 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1266 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1267 is necesary for sanity.
1268 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1269 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1274 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1276 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1277 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1281 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1284 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1288 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1294 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1297 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1298 released, so use at your own risk.
1299 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1300 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1302 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1303 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1304 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1305 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1306 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1307 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1308 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1309 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1310 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1311 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1312 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1313 including twice per config file line now..
1314 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1315 and simplfy the rules file.
1316 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1317 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1318 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1320 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1321 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1325 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1328 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1332 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1335 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1339 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1342 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1346 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1349 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1350 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1351 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1352 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1353 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1354 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1358 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1361 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1362 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1363 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1368 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1371 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1372 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1377 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1380 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1381 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1382 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1387 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1390 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1391 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1392 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1396 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1402 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1409 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1412 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1413 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1414 unknown. Closes: #282924
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1418 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1425 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Spanish man page updates.
1428 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1433 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1439 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1442 * dh_desktop: reindent
1443 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1444 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1448 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1454 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1456 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1460 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1462 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1466 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1469 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1470 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1474 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1480 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1486 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1493 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1496 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1500 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1503 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1504 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1505 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1506 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1507 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1508 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1510 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1511 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1512 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1513 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1514 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1515 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1516 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1517 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1518 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1519 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1520 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1521 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1522 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1523 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1524 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1525 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1529 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1536 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1539 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1543 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1546 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1550 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1553 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1557 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1560 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1564 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1570 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1576 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1582 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1585 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1586 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1587 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1591 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1594 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1598 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1601 but occasionally right and necessary.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1605 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1608 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1609 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1610 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1611 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1612 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1616 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1619 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1621 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1622 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1623 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1624 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1625 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1626 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1627 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1628 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1629 postinst scripts for udebs.
1630 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1634 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1637 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1639 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1640 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1644 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1650 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1657 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1664 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1667 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1671 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1674 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1678 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1681 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1684 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1685 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1689 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1695 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1698 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1702 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1705 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1706 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1707 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1709 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1711 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1712 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1713 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1717 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1720 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1725 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1728 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1729 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1730 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1735 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1741 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1747 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1750 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1751 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1752 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1753 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1754 associated -dbg packages.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1758 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1761 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1765 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1768 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1772 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1775 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1779 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1782 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1787 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1790 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1794 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1797 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1802 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1805 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1809 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1813 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1814 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1815 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1816 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1817 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1818 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1819 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1820 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1821 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1822 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1826 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1829 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1834 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1837 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1838 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1842 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1845 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1846 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1851 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1854 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1858 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1861 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1865 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1868 out section number. Closes: #204731
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1872 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1879 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1885 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1891 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1894 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1895 removal. Closes: #204286
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1899 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1902 renaming. Closes: #203548
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1906 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1909 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1910 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1914 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1920 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1926 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1932 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1935 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1936 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1937 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1941 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1944 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1945 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1949 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1955 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1962 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1965 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1970 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1973 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1977 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1980 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1982 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1983 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1990 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1995 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1998 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2002 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2008 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2010 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2017 it break hard links (see #188663).
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2024 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2028 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2034 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2038 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2039 debconf-mergetemplates
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2043 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2046 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2050 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2053 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2057 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2060 * Update debhelper(1).
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2064 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2067 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2068 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2069 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2070 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2071 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2075 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2078 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2079 the shell. Closes: #178524
2080 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2084 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2087 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2091 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2094 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2098 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2101 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2102 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2103 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2104 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2109 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2112 files from installation.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2116 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2119 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2120 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2124 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2127 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2131 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2134 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2138 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2144 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2150 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2154 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2155 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2157 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2161 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2164 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2165 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2166 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2167 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2171 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2174 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2178 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2181 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2182 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2186 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2190 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2195 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2201 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2205 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2206 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2207 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2212 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2215 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2216 practice. Closes: #163303
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2220 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2226 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2233 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2236 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2238 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2239 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2240 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2241 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2242 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2246 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2249 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2254 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2267 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2270 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2281 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2287 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2293 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2300 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2303 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2304 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2305 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2306 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2311 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2317 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2324 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2327 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2328 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2332 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2335 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2336 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2337 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2338 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2339 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2346 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2348 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2353 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2356 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2360 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2363 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2364 right thing. Closes: #150644
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Stupid, evil typo.
2371 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2375 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2382 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2385 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2386 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2397 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2400 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2404 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2407 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2408 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2413 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2416 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2420 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2426 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2429 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2430 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2434 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2440 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Removing perl warning message.
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2446 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2449 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2450 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2451 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2452 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2453 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2454 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2455 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2456 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2460 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2466 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2473 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2476 debconf-mergetemplate.
2477 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2478 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2482 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2485 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2486 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2487 dh_install, which ...
2488 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2489 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2490 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2491 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2492 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2493 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2494 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2495 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2496 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2497 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2498 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2499 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2500 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2501 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2502 other minor changes.
2503 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2504 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2505 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2506 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2507 course there's -X ..)
2508 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2509 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2510 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2512 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2513 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2514 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2515 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2516 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2521 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2527 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2530 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2534 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2540 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2546 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2552 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2558 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2561 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2562 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2563 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2564 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2566 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2567 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2571 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2577 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2580 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2584 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2587 upset. Closes: #131322
2589 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2591 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2594 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2595 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2596 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2597 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2598 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2599 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2600 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2601 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2602 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2603 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2604 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2605 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2606 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2607 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2608 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2610 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2614 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2617 - Better indenting of generated code.
2618 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2622 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2626 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2627 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2628 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2629 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2630 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2631 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2632 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2636 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2639 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2643 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2646 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2647 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2648 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2649 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2650 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2651 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2652 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2653 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2654 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2655 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2656 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2657 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2658 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2659 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2660 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2665 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2671 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2674 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2675 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2679 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2682 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2683 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2687 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2693 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2696 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2697 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2698 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2699 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2700 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2705 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2711 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2714 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2718 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2721 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2726 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2732 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2735 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2739 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2745 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2749 Also some indentation fixes.
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2753 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2756 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2757 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2758 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2759 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2760 Closes: #106514, #85520
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2764 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2770 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2776 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2782 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2788 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2794 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2797 change it in debhelper v4..
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2801 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2807 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2810 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2814 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2817 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2821 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2827 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2830 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2831 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2832 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2833 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2834 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2835 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2836 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2837 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2838 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2839 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2840 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2841 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2845 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2848 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2852 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2859 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2862 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2863 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2864 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2865 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2866 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2867 program those options go to. So, for example,
2868 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2869 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2870 something complex. Closes: #89311
2871 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2875 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2878 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2879 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2880 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2884 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2887 through loop. Closes: #98598
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2891 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Missing semi-colon.
2894 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2895 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2899 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2902 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2903 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2904 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2908 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2911 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2912 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2916 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2919 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2923 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2926 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2927 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2931 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2934 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2935 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2936 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2940 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2943 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2944 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2945 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2949 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2952 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2956 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2962 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2968 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2974 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2980 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2983 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2987 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2990 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2991 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2992 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2993 followed. Closes: #85483
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2997 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2999 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3000 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3001 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3005 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3008 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3009 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3010 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3011 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3012 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3013 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3014 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3015 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3016 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3017 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3018 Closes: #88464, #77743
3019 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3020 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3021 us to deal with that gracefully.
3022 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3024 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3025 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3026 a while, Closes: #51225
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3030 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3036 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3039 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3043 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3047 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3052 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3055 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3056 don't make packlist files.
3057 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3058 debhelper coding standards.
3059 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3060 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3064 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3067 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3071 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3074 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3075 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3076 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3077 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3078 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3079 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3080 but is mildly deprecated.
3081 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3082 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3083 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3084 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3085 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3086 switching to statoverrides..
3087 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3088 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3089 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3090 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3091 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3092 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3094 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3095 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3096 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3097 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3098 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3099 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3100 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3101 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3102 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3104 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3105 variable names, pod man pages).
3106 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3107 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3108 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3109 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3110 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3111 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3112 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3116 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3122 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3129 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3132 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3136 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3138 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3139 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3140 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3144 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3146 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3147 they were previously ignored.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3151 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3153 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3154 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3158 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3160 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3161 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3162 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3166 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3168 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3172 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3174 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3175 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3179 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3181 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3182 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3183 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3184 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3185 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3186 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3187 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3188 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3189 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3190 it is an obsolete program.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3194 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3196 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3200 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3204 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3206 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3210 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3212 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3214 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3216 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3220 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3226 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * typo: Closes, #78567
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3232 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3238 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3244 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3247 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3248 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3249 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3250 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3251 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3255 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3258 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3263 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3266 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3267 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3268 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3269 backwards-compatability.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3273 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3276 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3277 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3278 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3279 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3280 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3281 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3283 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3284 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3285 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3287 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3289 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3290 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3291 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3292 should now be raised to severity important..
3293 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3294 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3298 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3301 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3306 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3312 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3318 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3324 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3331 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3334 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3335 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3336 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3337 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3341 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3347 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3350 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3351 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3352 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3353 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3354 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3355 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3360 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3363 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3367 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3373 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3376 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3381 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3384 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3385 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3386 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3387 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3391 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3395 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3398 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3401 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3402 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3405 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3407 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3408 the TODO entry about it.
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3412 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3419 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3422 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3423 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3427 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3430 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3431 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3432 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3433 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3437 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3443 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3450 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3453 (this appears to be logal).
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3457 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3460 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3461 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3462 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3463 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3467 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3473 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3476 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3477 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3478 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3479 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3483 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3489 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3492 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3496 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3503 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3506 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3507 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3508 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3513 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3520 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3526 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3529 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3530 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3531 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3532 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3533 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3534 notice until v2 is complete.
3535 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3536 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3537 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3538 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3539 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3540 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3542 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3543 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3544 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3545 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3549 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3555 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3562 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3565 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3569 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3576 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3579 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3580 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3581 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3582 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3587 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3590 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3591 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3592 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3597 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3600 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3601 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3605 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3608 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3612 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3615 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3619 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3626 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3629 depend on the build and install targets.
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3633 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3636 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3640 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3647 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3653 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3659 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3662 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3663 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3664 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3665 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3666 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3667 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3669 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3670 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3671 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3672 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3673 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3674 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3675 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3679 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3685 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3691 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3694 right place. Closes: #55065
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3698 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3705 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3708 * Copyright date updates.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3712 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3715 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3720 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3726 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3733 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3739 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3745 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3751 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3754 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3755 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3756 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3757 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3758 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3759 bits until all files have been registered.
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3763 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * dh_installmanpages:
3766 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3767 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3768 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3769 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3770 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3771 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3772 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3773 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3774 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3775 otherwise change the result at all.
3777 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3778 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3779 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3780 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3781 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3786 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3792 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3795 act on files that don't exist.
3796 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3797 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3798 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3800 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3801 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3802 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3803 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3807 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3813 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3819 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3822 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3826 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3829 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3831 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3832 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3833 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3837 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3840 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3841 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3842 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3843 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3844 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3845 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3846 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3848 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3850 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3854 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3861 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3867 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3873 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3876 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3880 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3886 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3892 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3895 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3896 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3897 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3898 I made some changes, though:
3899 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3900 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3901 that is a clear violation of policy.
3902 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3903 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3904 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3905 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3906 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3907 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3908 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3909 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3910 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3912 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3916 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3922 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3925 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3929 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3932 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3933 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3938 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3944 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3951 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3954 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3955 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3956 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3957 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3958 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3959 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3960 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3964 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3970 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3974 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3975 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3979 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3985 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3988 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3992 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3995 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3996 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4000 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4002 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4007 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4011 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4015 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4018 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4019 for the dependancies to be generated.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4023 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4026 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4030 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4033 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4034 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4035 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4040 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4043 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4044 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4048 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4054 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4063 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4067 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4073 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4076 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4077 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4078 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4079 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4080 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4081 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4082 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4083 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4084 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4085 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4086 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4087 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4091 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4094 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4095 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4097 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4098 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4099 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4100 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4101 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4102 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4104 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4105 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4109 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4112 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4116 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4123 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4126 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4131 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4134 for building debhelper.
4135 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4139 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4146 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4149 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4156 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4157 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4158 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4159 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4160 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4161 it's always available.
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4165 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4168 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4169 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4170 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4174 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4177 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4178 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4182 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4188 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4191 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4195 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4201 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4204 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4205 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4206 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4210 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4213 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4218 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4221 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4222 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4224 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4225 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4235 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4241 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4244 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4251 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4252 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4254 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4258 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4261 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4262 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4263 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4267 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4270 things if CDPATH is set.
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4274 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4280 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4283 seems to make sense for the transition.
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4287 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4290 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4295 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4298 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4299 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4306 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4310 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4313 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4314 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4315 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4316 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4320 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4326 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4329 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4330 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4331 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4332 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4333 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4334 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4335 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4336 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4337 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4338 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4343 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4346 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4347 * README: mention doc/v2
4348 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4349 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4353 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4355 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4356 be using this script RSN.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4360 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4363 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4364 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4365 more than 1 init script.
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4369 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4372 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4376 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Changed perl version detection.
4379 * Changed call to find.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4383 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4386 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4388 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4393 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Really include dh_installpam.
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4399 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4402 * Wrote man page for same.
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4406 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4409 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4410 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4415 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4422 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4425 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4426 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4427 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4428 x bit was being set!
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4432 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4435 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4436 well. (Closes: 38900)
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4440 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4443 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4444 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4448 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4454 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4461 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4467 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4470 help from Julian Gilbey.
4471 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4472 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4473 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4474 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4475 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4476 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4477 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4482 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4488 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4495 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4501 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4507 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4509 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4510 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4514 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4517 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4521 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4524 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4528 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4534 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4537 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4541 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4547 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4553 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4556 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4557 may be deleted. (#35845)
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4561 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * Various man page enhancements.
4564 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4569 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4572 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4573 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4577 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4579 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4580 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4581 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4582 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4584 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4585 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4590 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4596 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * Another very minor typo fix.
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4602 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * Very minor typo fix.
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4608 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4611 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4612 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4616 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4622 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4625 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4626 variables properly (#34850).
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4630 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4636 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4639 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4640 (automatically generated by build process).
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4644 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4646 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4650 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4653 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4654 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4656 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4660 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4663 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4667 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * README: minor typo fix.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4673 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4676 leave it at that. :-)
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4680 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4686 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4692 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4695 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4696 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4697 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4701 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4704 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4708 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4711 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4715 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4718 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4719 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4720 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4721 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4725 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4728 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4729 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4730 Craig Small for spotting this.
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4734 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4737 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4738 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4742 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4748 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4751 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4755 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4757 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4758 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4759 working on the last version of debhelper.
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4763 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4766 being made. (#23255)
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4770 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4776 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4779 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4783 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4786 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4787 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4788 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4789 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4793 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4796 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4797 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4798 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4799 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4801 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4802 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4804 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4809 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4815 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4821 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4824 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4825 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4826 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4827 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4828 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4829 suidregister actually supports it.
4830 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4831 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4835 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4842 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4845 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4846 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4847 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4848 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4849 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4850 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4851 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4855 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4857 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4858 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4862 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4865 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4866 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4867 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4868 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4872 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4875 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4877 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4878 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4879 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4880 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4881 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4882 effect, either. (#30118)
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4886 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4892 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4895 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4896 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4900 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4906 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4909 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4910 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4911 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4912 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4916 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4919 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4920 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4924 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4930 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4933 packages, painlessly.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4937 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4943 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4949 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4955 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * The perl conversion is complete.
4959 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4961 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4962 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4963 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4968 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4971 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4972 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4973 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4977 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4980 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4982 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4984 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4985 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4989 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4992 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4993 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4997 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5003 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5006 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5007 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5008 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5009 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5010 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5014 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5017 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5018 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5019 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5020 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5024 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5027 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5031 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5034 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5035 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5036 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5037 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5038 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5039 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5040 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5041 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5045 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5051 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5054 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5055 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5056 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5061 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5064 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5068 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5071 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5075 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5077 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5078 sections of shared libraries.
5079 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5080 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5081 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5082 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5083 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5084 things you don't want them to.
5085 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5086 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5090 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5093 shared libraries. (#26414)
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5097 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5099 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5100 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5101 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5102 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5106 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5108 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5110 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5112 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5113 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5114 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5115 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5116 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5120 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5123 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5127 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5130 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5131 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5136 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5139 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5143 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5146 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5147 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5148 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5149 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5150 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5152 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5153 remove debian/files properly.
5154 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5155 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5156 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5157 * Removed bogus menu file.
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5161 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5164 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5168 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5171 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5172 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5173 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5174 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5175 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5176 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5180 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5183 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5184 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5185 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5186 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5190 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5197 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5200 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5201 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5203 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5204 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5205 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5206 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5207 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5208 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5212 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5215 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5216 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5217 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5218 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5219 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5220 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5221 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5222 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5223 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5224 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5225 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5226 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5227 passed any switches.
5228 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5232 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5235 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5236 at all for a long while.
5237 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5238 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5239 large chunks in the process.
5240 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5241 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5242 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5247 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5250 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5252 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5257 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5260 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5261 that don't always have the same files in them.
5262 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5263 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5264 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5268 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5272 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5273 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5274 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5275 updating 27 man pages.
5276 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5277 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5278 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5279 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5280 programs act on. (#25247)
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5284 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5288 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5289 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5290 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5291 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5292 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5293 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5298 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5305 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5312 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5315 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5319 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5325 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5328 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5329 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5330 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5331 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5332 package by accident.
5333 * Is version 1.0 next?
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5337 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5340 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5341 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5345 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5348 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5349 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5350 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5351 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5352 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5354 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5359 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5362 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5363 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5367 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5370 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5374 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5377 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5378 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5383 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5385 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5389 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5392 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5393 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5398 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5404 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5407 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5408 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5409 past week. Thanks, guys!
5411 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5412 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5413 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5414 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5415 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5416 would do in the same situation.
5417 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5418 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5420 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5422 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5423 permissions changed.
5424 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5425 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5426 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5427 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5428 files are treated identically.
5429 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5430 * Minor man page fixes.
5431 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5432 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5433 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5437 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5440 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5441 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5442 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5443 use -X multiple times, too.
5444 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5445 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5449 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5452 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5453 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5457 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5460 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5464 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5467 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5468 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5469 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5470 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5471 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5472 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5473 shape if you're starting a new package.
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5477 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5480 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5484 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5487 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5488 because of missing symlinks.
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5492 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5498 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5500 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5501 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5502 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5503 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5504 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5505 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5507 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5508 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5512 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5514 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5515 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5516 to be changed after the fact :-)
5517 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5521 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5523 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5524 no version string after the -V.
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5528 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5530 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5531 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5536 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5539 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5543 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5546 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5547 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5548 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5549 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5550 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5551 I always welcome corrections!
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5555 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5561 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5564 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5565 * Documented this new switch.
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5569 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5572 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5573 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5574 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5575 no packages use the old behavior.
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5579 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5582 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5583 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5587 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5590 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5594 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5600 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5603 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5607 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5610 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5611 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5612 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5616 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5622 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5625 into the source package by accident.
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5629 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5632 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5633 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5634 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5635 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5636 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5637 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5642 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5646 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5647 inspired to implement some of it.
5648 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5652 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5655 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5659 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5661 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5662 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5663 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5667 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5670 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5671 have done.) (#17598)
5673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5675 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5677 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5681 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5687 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5690 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5694 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5697 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5698 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5702 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5704 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5705 argument processor in perl.
5706 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5707 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5708 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5709 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5713 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5716 type directories. (#16933)
5717 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5718 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5719 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5720 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5721 are supported. (#16935)
5722 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5727 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5730 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5734 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5738 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5739 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5740 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5741 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5742 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5743 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5747 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5749 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5750 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5751 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5753 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5754 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5755 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5756 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5757 a given package, or -i or -a.
5758 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5759 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5760 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5761 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5762 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5763 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5764 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5765 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5766 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5768 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5769 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5770 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5774 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5777 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5778 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5783 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5786 does not have a section.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5790 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5793 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5794 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5795 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5799 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * Fixed typo #16215.
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5805 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5808 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5809 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5810 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5811 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5812 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5817 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5820 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5821 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5822 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5827 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5833 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5839 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5841 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5842 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5843 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5844 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5845 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5846 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5847 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5851 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5857 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5860 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5864 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5867 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5868 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5869 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5873 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5876 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5880 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5882 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5886 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5888 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5889 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5893 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5896 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5900 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5902 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5906 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5909 postinst, postrm, etc.
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5913 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5919 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5922 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5923 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5924 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5925 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5926 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5930 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5932 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5933 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5934 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5938 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5940 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5941 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5945 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5947 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5948 installing package files into.
5949 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5954 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5956 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5958 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5962 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5968 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5971 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5975 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5978 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5979 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5980 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5981 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5985 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5987 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5988 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5989 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5990 multiple binary packages.
5991 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5992 should rebuild them with this version.
5993 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5997 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6000 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6004 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6007 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6011 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6014 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6015 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6016 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6017 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6018 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6019 debian/README.debian.
6020 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6021 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6022 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6023 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6024 in a few situations.)
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6028 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6034 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6040 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6042 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6043 * Fixed several man pages.
6045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6047 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6049 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6050 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6051 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6055 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6058 is ready for general use.
6059 * Added man pages for all commands.
6060 * Multiple binary package support.
6061 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6062 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6063 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6065 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6066 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6067 auto-installed as parameters.
6068 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6070 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6073 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6074 the package build directory it is to act on.
6075 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6076 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6077 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6081 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6083 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6084 ready to replace debstd.
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400