1 debhelper (7.0.10) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:46:02 -0400
8 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
10 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
11 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
12 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
13 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
14 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
15 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
16 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
17 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
18 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
19 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
23 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
26 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
27 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
28 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
29 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
31 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
32 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
33 breaking backwards compatability.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
37 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
44 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
50 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Convert copyright file to new format.
53 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
57 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
60 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
64 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
67 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
68 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
69 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
70 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
71 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
72 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
73 logging by dh_listpackages.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
77 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
80 run and there are no packages of that type.
81 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
82 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
83 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
84 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
86 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
87 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
91 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
93 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
94 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
95 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
99 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
102 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
103 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
105 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
106 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
107 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
108 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
109 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
110 planned but not yet implemented.)
111 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
112 if the Makefile has such a target.
113 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
114 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
115 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
116 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
117 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
118 but not yet implemented.)
119 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
120 recommended default, especially when using dh.
121 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
122 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
123 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
125 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
127 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
128 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
130 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
131 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
132 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
137 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
140 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
141 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
145 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
147 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
148 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
149 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
153 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
155 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
159 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
165 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
168 just those installed by the program.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
172 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
175 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
176 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
180 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
183 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
184 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
185 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
186 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
190 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
193 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
194 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
198 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
200 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
201 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
202 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
206 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
209 with policy. Closes: #461392
210 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
211 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
212 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
213 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
214 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
218 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
221 Closes: #460340, #460351
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
225 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
228 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
229 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
230 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
231 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
235 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
238 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
239 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
240 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
241 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
242 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
243 package build directory won't work.
244 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
245 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
246 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
247 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
248 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
249 mode. Closes: #459426
250 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
255 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
258 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
262 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
266 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
267 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
268 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
269 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
270 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
271 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
275 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
278 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
279 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
280 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
281 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
285 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
287 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
288 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
289 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
290 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
291 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
292 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
296 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
299 debian/package.triggers files.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
303 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
306 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
310 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
313 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
314 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
315 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
316 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
321 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
324 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
328 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
331 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
332 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
334 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
339 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
343 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
344 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
345 * Typo. Closes: #441272
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
349 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
356 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
363 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
366 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
368 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
369 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
370 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
372 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
373 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
374 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
378 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
381 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
382 * Update urls to web page.
383 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
385 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
386 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
390 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
393 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
394 - typo in alternatives call
395 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
397 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
398 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
402 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
405 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
410 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
416 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
422 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
425 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
427 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
428 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
429 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
430 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
431 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
432 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
433 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
434 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
435 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
436 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
437 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
441 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
444 package install. Closes: #415717
445 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
446 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
447 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
448 script and then remove the python files.
449 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
450 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
451 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
452 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
453 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
454 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
455 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
456 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
457 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
458 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
459 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
460 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
461 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
465 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Correct typo in french translation
471 * Typo. Closes: #400571
472 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
474 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
476 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
477 Closes: #406921, #381940
478 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
480 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
481 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
482 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
483 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
484 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
485 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
486 specified). Closes: #381851
487 * Misc minor changes.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
491 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
498 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
499 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
503 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
509 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
510 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
513 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
514 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
516 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
517 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
518 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
519 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
523 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
526 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
529 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
533 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
539 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
545 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
546 a difficult situation.
547 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
548 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
549 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
550 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
551 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
552 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
553 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
554 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
555 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
556 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
560 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Non-maintainer upload.
563 * Update of dh_python
564 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
565 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
567 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
568 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
569 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
570 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
571 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
573 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
575 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Non-maintainer upload.
578 * Update of dh_python
579 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
580 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
581 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
582 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
583 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
584 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
585 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
586 specific python version. Closes: #373853
587 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
588 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
590 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
591 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
592 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
593 the not too-distant future).
594 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
595 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
596 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
597 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
598 thus made the build fail.
600 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
602 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Non-maintainer upload.
605 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
607 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
609 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
612 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
613 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
614 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
615 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
616 package. Closes: #301424
617 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
618 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
619 fonts). Closes: #372686
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
623 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
629 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
630 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
631 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
632 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
633 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
634 above, but already depends on that.
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
638 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
640 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
641 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
642 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
643 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
644 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
645 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
649 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
655 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
661 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
662 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
666 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
669 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
673 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
677 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
678 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
679 new version (0.24.1).
680 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
681 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
684 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
685 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
686 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
687 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
688 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
689 new directory on their own.
690 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
691 * Fix broken directory removal code.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
695 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
697 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
698 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
699 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
700 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
701 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
705 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
708 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
709 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
710 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
711 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
712 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
716 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
722 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Typo. Closes: #358904
726 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
727 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
731 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
732 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
736 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
738 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
739 || exit 0 instead of the intended
741 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
742 ignored. Closes: #337664
744 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
749 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
755 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
760 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
761 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
762 the dh_installdebconf manpage
763 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
764 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
765 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
766 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
770 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
773 version. Closes: #350607
774 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
775 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
776 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
777 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
781 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
784 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
785 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
786 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
790 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
797 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Minor bug fix from last release.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
803 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
806 language guessing. Closes: #193221
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
810 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
813 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
814 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
815 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
816 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
817 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
818 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
822 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
825 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
826 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
831 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
834 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
838 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
841 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
845 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
848 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
849 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
850 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
851 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
852 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
853 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
857 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
860 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
861 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
862 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
863 link. Closes: #346405
864 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
867 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
868 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
869 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
870 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
871 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
872 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
876 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
883 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
885 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
889 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
892 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
896 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
899 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
904 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
908 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
909 installed. Closes: #342033
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
913 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
916 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
917 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
918 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
923 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
929 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
935 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
939 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
940 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
941 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
945 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
947 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
948 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
953 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
960 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
962 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
966 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
968 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
969 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
970 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
971 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
972 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
973 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
974 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
975 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
977 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
981 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
984 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
985 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
989 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
992 in standard man dirs.
993 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
997 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1003 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1006 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1011 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1018 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1025 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1028 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1029 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1033 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1036 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1037 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1038 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1040 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1042 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1048 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1054 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1057 mode. Closes: #324161
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1061 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1064 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1065 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1066 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1067 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1072 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1075 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1076 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1077 is necesary for sanity.
1078 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1079 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1084 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1086 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1087 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1091 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1094 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1098 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1104 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1107 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1108 released, so use at your own risk.
1109 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1110 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1112 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1113 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1114 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1115 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1116 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1117 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1118 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1119 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1120 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1121 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1122 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1123 including twice per config file line now..
1124 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1125 and simplfy the rules file.
1126 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1127 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1128 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1130 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1131 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1135 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1138 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1142 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1145 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1149 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1152 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1156 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1159 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1160 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1161 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1162 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1163 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1164 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1168 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1171 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1172 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1173 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1178 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1181 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1182 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1187 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1190 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1191 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1192 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1197 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1200 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1201 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1202 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1206 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1212 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1219 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1222 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1223 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1224 unknown. Closes: #282924
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1228 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1235 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * Spanish man page updates.
1238 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1243 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1249 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1252 * dh_desktop: reindent
1253 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1254 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1258 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1264 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1266 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1270 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1272 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1276 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1279 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1280 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1284 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1290 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1296 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1303 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1306 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1310 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1313 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1314 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1315 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1316 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1317 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1318 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1320 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1321 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1322 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1323 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1324 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1325 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1326 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1327 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1328 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1329 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1330 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1331 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1332 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1333 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1334 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1335 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1339 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1346 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1349 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1353 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1356 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1360 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1363 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1367 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1370 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1374 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1380 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1386 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1392 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1395 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1396 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1397 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1401 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1404 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1408 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1411 but occasionally right and necessary.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1415 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1418 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1419 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1420 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1421 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1422 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1426 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1429 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1431 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1432 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1433 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1434 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1435 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1436 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1437 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1438 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1439 postinst scripts for udebs.
1440 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1444 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1447 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1449 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1450 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1454 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1460 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1467 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1474 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1477 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1481 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1484 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1488 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1491 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1494 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1495 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1499 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1505 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1508 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1512 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1515 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1516 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1517 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1519 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1521 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1522 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1523 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1527 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1530 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1535 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1538 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1539 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1540 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1545 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1551 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1557 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1560 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1561 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1562 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1563 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1564 associated -dbg packages.
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1568 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1571 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1575 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1578 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1582 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1585 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1589 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1592 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1597 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1600 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1604 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1607 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1612 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1615 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1619 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1623 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1624 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1625 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1626 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1627 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1628 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1629 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1630 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1631 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1632 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1636 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1639 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1644 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1647 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1648 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1652 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1655 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1656 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1661 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1664 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1668 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1671 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1675 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1678 out section number. Closes: #204731
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1682 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1689 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1695 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1701 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1704 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1705 removal. Closes: #204286
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1709 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1712 renaming. Closes: #203548
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1716 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1719 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1720 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1724 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1730 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1736 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1742 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1745 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1746 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1747 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1751 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1754 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1755 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1759 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1765 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1772 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1775 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1780 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1783 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1787 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1790 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1792 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1793 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1797 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1800 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1805 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1808 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1812 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1818 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1820 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1824 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1827 it break hard links (see #188663).
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1831 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1834 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1838 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1844 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1848 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1849 debconf-mergetemplates
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1853 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1856 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1860 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1863 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1867 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1870 * Update debhelper(1).
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1874 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1877 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1878 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1879 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1880 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1881 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1885 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1888 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1889 the shell. Closes: #178524
1890 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1894 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1897 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1901 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1904 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1908 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1911 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1912 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1913 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1914 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1919 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1922 files from installation.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1926 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1929 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1930 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1934 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1937 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1941 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1944 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1948 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1954 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1960 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1964 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1965 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1967 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1971 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1974 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1975 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1976 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1977 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1981 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1984 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1988 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1991 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1992 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1996 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2000 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2005 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2011 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2015 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2016 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2017 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2022 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2025 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2026 practice. Closes: #163303
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2030 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2036 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2043 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2046 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2048 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2049 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2050 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2051 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2052 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2056 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2059 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2064 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2070 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2077 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2080 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2085 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2091 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2097 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2103 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2110 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2113 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2114 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2115 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2116 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2121 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2127 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2134 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2137 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2138 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2142 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2145 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2146 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2147 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2148 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2149 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2156 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2158 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2163 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2166 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2170 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2173 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2174 right thing. Closes: #150644
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2178 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * Stupid, evil typo.
2181 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2185 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2192 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2195 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2196 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2201 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2207 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2210 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2214 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2217 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2218 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2226 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2230 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2236 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2239 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2240 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2244 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2250 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Removing perl warning message.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2256 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2259 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2260 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2261 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2262 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2263 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2264 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2265 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2266 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2276 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2283 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2286 debconf-mergetemplate.
2287 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2288 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2292 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2295 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2296 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2297 dh_install, which ...
2298 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2299 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2300 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2301 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2302 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2303 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2304 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2305 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2306 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2307 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2308 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2309 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2310 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2311 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2312 other minor changes.
2313 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2314 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2315 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2316 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2317 course there's -X ..)
2318 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2319 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2320 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2322 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2323 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2324 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2325 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2326 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2331 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2337 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2340 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2344 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2350 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2356 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2362 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2368 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2371 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2372 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2373 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2374 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2376 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2377 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2381 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2387 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2390 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2394 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2397 upset. Closes: #131322
2399 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2401 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2404 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2405 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2406 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2407 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2408 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2409 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2410 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2411 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2412 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2413 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2414 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2415 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2416 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2417 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2418 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2420 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2424 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2427 - Better indenting of generated code.
2428 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2432 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2436 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2437 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2438 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2439 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2440 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2441 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2442 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2446 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2449 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2453 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2456 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2457 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2458 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2459 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2460 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2461 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2462 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2463 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2464 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2465 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2466 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2467 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2468 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2469 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2470 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2475 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2481 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2484 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2485 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2489 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2492 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2493 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2497 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2503 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2506 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2507 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2508 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2509 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2510 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2515 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2521 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2524 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2528 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2531 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2536 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2542 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2545 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2549 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2555 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2559 Also some indentation fixes.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2563 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2566 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2567 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2568 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2569 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2570 Closes: #106514, #85520
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2574 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2580 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2586 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2592 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2598 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2604 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2607 change it in debhelper v4..
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2611 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2617 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2620 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2624 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2627 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2631 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2637 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2640 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2641 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2642 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2643 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2644 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2645 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2646 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2647 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2648 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2649 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2650 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2651 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2655 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2658 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2662 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2669 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2672 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2673 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2674 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2675 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2676 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2677 program those options go to. So, for example,
2678 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2679 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2680 something complex. Closes: #89311
2681 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2685 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2688 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2689 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2690 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2694 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2697 through loop. Closes: #98598
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2701 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Missing semi-colon.
2704 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2705 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2709 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2712 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2713 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2714 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2718 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2721 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2722 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2726 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2729 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2733 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2736 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2737 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2741 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2744 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2745 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2746 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2750 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2753 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2754 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2755 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2759 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2762 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2766 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2772 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2778 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2784 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2790 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2793 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2797 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2800 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2801 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2802 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2803 followed. Closes: #85483
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2807 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2809 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2810 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2811 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2815 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2818 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2819 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2820 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2821 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2822 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2823 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2824 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2825 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2826 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2827 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2828 Closes: #88464, #77743
2829 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2830 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2831 us to deal with that gracefully.
2832 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2834 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2835 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2836 a while, Closes: #51225
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2840 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2846 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2849 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2853 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2857 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2862 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2865 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2866 don't make packlist files.
2867 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2868 debhelper coding standards.
2869 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2870 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2874 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2877 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2881 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2884 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2885 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2886 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2887 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2888 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2889 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2890 but is mildly deprecated.
2891 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2892 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2893 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2894 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2895 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2896 switching to statoverrides..
2897 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2898 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2899 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2900 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2901 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2902 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2904 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2905 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2906 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2907 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2908 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2909 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2910 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2911 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2912 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2914 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2915 variable names, pod man pages).
2916 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2917 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2918 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2919 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2920 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2921 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2922 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2926 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2932 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2939 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2942 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2946 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2948 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2949 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2950 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2954 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2956 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2957 they were previously ignored.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2961 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2963 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2964 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2968 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2970 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2971 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2972 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2976 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2978 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2982 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2984 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2985 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2989 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2991 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2992 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2993 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2994 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2995 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2996 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2997 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2998 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2999 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3000 it is an obsolete program.
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3004 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3006 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3010 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3014 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3016 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3020 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3022 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3024 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3026 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3030 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3036 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * typo: Closes, #78567
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3042 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3048 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3054 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3057 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3058 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3059 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3060 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3061 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3065 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3068 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3073 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3076 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3077 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3078 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3079 backwards-compatability.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3083 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3086 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3087 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3088 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3089 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3090 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3091 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3093 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3094 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3095 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3097 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3099 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3100 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3101 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3102 should now be raised to severity important..
3103 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3104 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3108 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3111 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3116 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3122 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3128 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3134 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3141 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3144 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3145 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3146 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3147 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3151 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3157 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3160 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3161 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3162 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3163 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3164 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3165 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3170 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3173 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3177 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3183 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3186 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3191 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3194 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3195 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3196 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3197 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3201 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3205 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3208 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3211 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3212 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3215 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3217 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3218 the TODO entry about it.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3222 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3229 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3232 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3233 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3237 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3240 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3241 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3242 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3243 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3247 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3253 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3260 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3263 (this appears to be logal).
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3267 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3270 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3271 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3272 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3273 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3277 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3283 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3286 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3287 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3288 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3289 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3293 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3299 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3302 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3306 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3313 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3316 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3317 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3318 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3323 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3330 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3336 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3339 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3340 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3341 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3342 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3343 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3344 notice until v2 is complete.
3345 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3346 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3347 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3348 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3349 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3350 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3352 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3353 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3354 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3355 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3359 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3365 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3372 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3375 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3379 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3386 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3389 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3390 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3391 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3392 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3397 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3400 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3401 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3402 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3407 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3410 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3411 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3415 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3418 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3422 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3425 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3429 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3436 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3439 depend on the build and install targets.
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3443 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3446 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3450 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3457 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3463 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3469 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3472 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3473 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3474 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3475 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3476 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3477 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3479 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3480 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3481 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3482 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3483 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3484 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3485 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3489 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3495 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3501 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3504 right place. Closes: #55065
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3508 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3515 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3518 * Copyright date updates.
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3522 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3525 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3530 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3536 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3543 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3549 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3555 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3561 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3564 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3565 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3566 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3567 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3568 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3569 bits until all files have been registered.
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3573 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * dh_installmanpages:
3576 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3577 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3578 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3579 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3580 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3581 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3582 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3583 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3584 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3585 otherwise change the result at all.
3587 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3588 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3589 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3590 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3591 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3596 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3602 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3605 act on files that don't exist.
3606 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3607 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3608 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3610 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3611 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3612 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3613 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3617 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3623 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3629 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3632 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3636 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3639 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3641 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3642 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3643 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3647 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3650 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3651 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3652 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3653 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3654 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3655 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3656 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3658 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3660 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3664 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3671 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3677 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3683 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3686 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3690 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3696 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3702 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3705 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3706 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3707 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3708 I made some changes, though:
3709 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3710 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3711 that is a clear violation of policy.
3712 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3713 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3714 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3715 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3716 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3717 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3718 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3719 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3720 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3722 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3726 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3732 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3735 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3739 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3742 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3743 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3748 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3754 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3761 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3764 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3765 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3766 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3767 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3768 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3769 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3770 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3774 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3780 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3784 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3785 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3789 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3795 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3798 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3802 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3805 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3806 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3810 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3812 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3817 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3821 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3825 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3828 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3829 for the dependancies to be generated.
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3833 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3836 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3840 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3843 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3844 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3845 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3850 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3853 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3854 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3858 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3864 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3870 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3873 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3877 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3883 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3886 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3887 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3888 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3889 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3890 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3891 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3892 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3893 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3894 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3895 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3896 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3897 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3901 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3904 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3905 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3907 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3908 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3909 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3910 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3911 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3912 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3914 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3915 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3919 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3922 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3926 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3933 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3936 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3941 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3944 for building debhelper.
3945 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3949 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3956 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3959 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3963 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3966 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3967 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3968 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3969 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3970 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3971 it's always available.
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3975 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3978 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3979 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3980 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3984 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3987 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3988 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3992 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4001 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4005 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4011 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4014 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4015 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4016 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4020 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4023 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4028 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4031 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4032 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4034 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4035 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4039 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4045 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4051 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4054 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4058 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4061 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4062 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4064 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4068 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4071 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4072 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4073 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4077 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4080 things if CDPATH is set.
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4084 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4090 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4093 seems to make sense for the transition.
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4097 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4100 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4105 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4108 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4109 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4113 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4116 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4120 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4123 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4124 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4125 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4126 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4130 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4139 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4140 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4141 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4142 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4143 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4144 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4145 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4146 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4147 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4148 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4153 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4156 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4157 * README: mention doc/v2
4158 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4159 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4163 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4165 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4166 be using this script RSN.
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4170 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4173 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4174 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4175 more than 1 init script.
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4179 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4182 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4186 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * Changed perl version detection.
4189 * Changed call to find.
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4193 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4196 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4198 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4203 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * Really include dh_installpam.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4209 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4212 * Wrote man page for same.
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4216 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4219 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4220 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4225 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4232 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4235 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4236 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4237 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4238 x bit was being set!
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4242 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4245 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4246 well. (Closes: 38900)
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4250 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4253 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4254 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4258 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4264 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4271 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4277 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4280 help from Julian Gilbey.
4281 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4282 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4283 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4284 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4285 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4286 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4287 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4292 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4298 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4305 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4311 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4317 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4320 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4324 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4327 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4331 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4334 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4338 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4344 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4347 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4351 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4357 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4363 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4366 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4367 may be deleted. (#35845)
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4371 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * Various man page enhancements.
4374 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4379 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4382 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4383 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4387 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4390 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4391 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4392 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4394 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4395 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4400 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4406 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Another very minor typo fix.
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4412 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * Very minor typo fix.
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4418 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4421 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4422 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4426 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4432 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4435 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4436 variables properly (#34850).
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4440 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4446 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4449 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4450 (automatically generated by build process).
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4454 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4456 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4460 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4463 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4464 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4466 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4470 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4473 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4477 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * README: minor typo fix.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4483 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4486 leave it at that. :-)
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4490 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4496 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4502 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4505 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4506 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4507 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4511 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4514 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4518 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4521 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4525 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4528 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4529 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4530 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4531 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4535 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4538 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4539 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4540 Craig Small for spotting this.
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4544 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4547 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4548 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4552 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4558 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4561 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4565 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4567 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4568 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4569 working on the last version of debhelper.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4573 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4576 being made. (#23255)
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4580 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4586 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4589 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4593 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4596 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4597 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4598 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4599 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4603 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4606 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4607 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4608 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4609 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4611 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4612 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4614 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4619 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4625 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4631 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4634 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4635 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4636 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4637 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4638 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4639 suidregister actually supports it.
4640 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4641 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4645 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4652 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4655 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4656 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4657 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4658 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4659 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4660 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4661 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4665 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4667 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4668 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4672 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4675 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4676 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4677 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4678 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4682 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4685 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4687 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4688 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4689 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4690 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4691 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4692 effect, either. (#30118)
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4696 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4702 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4705 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4706 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4710 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4716 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4719 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4720 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4721 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4722 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4726 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4729 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4730 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4734 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4740 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4743 packages, painlessly.
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4747 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4753 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4759 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4765 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * The perl conversion is complete.
4769 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4771 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4772 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4773 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4778 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4781 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4782 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4783 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4787 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4790 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4792 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4794 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4795 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4799 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4802 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4803 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4807 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4813 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4816 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4817 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4818 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4819 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4820 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4824 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4827 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4828 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4829 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4830 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4834 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4837 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4841 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4844 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4845 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4846 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4847 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4848 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4849 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4850 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4851 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4855 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4861 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4864 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4865 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4866 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4871 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4874 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4878 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4881 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4885 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4888 sections of shared libraries.
4889 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4890 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4891 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4892 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4893 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4894 things you don't want them to.
4895 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4896 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4900 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4903 shared libraries. (#26414)
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4907 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4909 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4910 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4911 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4912 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4916 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4920 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4922 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4923 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4924 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4925 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4926 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4930 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4933 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4937 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4940 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4941 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4946 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4949 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4953 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4956 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4957 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4958 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4959 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4960 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4962 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4963 remove debian/files properly.
4964 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4965 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4966 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4967 * Removed bogus menu file.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4971 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4974 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4978 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4980 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4981 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4982 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4983 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4984 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4985 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4986 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4990 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4993 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4994 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4995 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4996 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5000 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5007 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5010 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5011 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5013 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5014 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5015 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5016 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5017 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5018 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5022 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5025 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5026 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5027 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5028 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5029 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5030 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5031 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5032 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5033 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5034 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5035 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5036 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5037 passed any switches.
5038 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5042 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5045 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5046 at all for a long while.
5047 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5048 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5049 large chunks in the process.
5050 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5051 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5052 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5057 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5060 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5062 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5067 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5069 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5070 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5071 that don't always have the same files in them.
5072 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5073 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5074 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5078 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5082 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5083 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5084 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5085 updating 27 man pages.
5086 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5087 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5088 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5089 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5090 programs act on. (#25247)
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5094 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5098 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5099 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5100 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5101 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5102 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5103 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5108 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5115 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5122 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5125 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5129 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5135 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5138 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5139 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5140 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5141 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5142 package by accident.
5143 * Is version 1.0 next?
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5147 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5150 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5151 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5155 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5158 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5159 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5160 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5161 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5162 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5164 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5169 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5172 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5173 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5177 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5180 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5184 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5187 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5188 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5193 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5199 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5202 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5203 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5208 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5214 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5217 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5218 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5219 past week. Thanks, guys!
5221 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5222 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5223 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5224 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5225 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5226 would do in the same situation.
5227 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5228 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5230 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5232 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5233 permissions changed.
5234 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5235 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5236 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5237 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5238 files are treated identically.
5239 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5240 * Minor man page fixes.
5241 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5242 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5243 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5247 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5250 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5251 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5252 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5253 use -X multiple times, too.
5254 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5255 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5259 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5262 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5263 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5267 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5270 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5274 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5277 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5278 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5279 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5280 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5281 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5282 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5283 shape if you're starting a new package.
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5287 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5290 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5294 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5297 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5298 because of missing symlinks.
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5302 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5308 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5311 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5312 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5313 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5314 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5315 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5317 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5318 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5322 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5324 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5325 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5326 to be changed after the fact :-)
5327 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5331 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5333 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5334 no version string after the -V.
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5338 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5340 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5341 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5346 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5349 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5353 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5356 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5357 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5358 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5359 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5360 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5361 I always welcome corrections!
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5365 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5371 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5374 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5375 * Documented this new switch.
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5379 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5382 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5383 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5384 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5385 no packages use the old behavior.
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5389 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5392 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5393 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5397 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5400 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5404 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5410 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5413 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5417 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5420 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5421 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5422 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5426 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5432 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5434 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5435 into the source package by accident.
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5439 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5442 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5443 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5444 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5445 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5446 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5447 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5452 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5454 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5456 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5457 inspired to implement some of it.
5458 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5462 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5465 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5469 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5472 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5473 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5477 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5480 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5481 have done.) (#17598)
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5485 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5491 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5497 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5500 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5504 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5507 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5508 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5512 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5515 argument processor in perl.
5516 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5517 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5518 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5519 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5523 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5526 type directories. (#16933)
5527 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5528 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5529 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5530 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5531 are supported. (#16935)
5532 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5537 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5540 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5544 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5548 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5549 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5550 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5551 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5552 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5553 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5557 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5559 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5560 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5561 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5563 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5564 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5565 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5566 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5567 a given package, or -i or -a.
5568 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5569 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5570 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5571 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5572 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5573 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5574 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5575 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5576 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5578 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5579 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5580 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5584 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5587 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5588 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5593 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5596 does not have a section.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5600 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5603 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5604 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5605 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5609 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * Fixed typo #16215.
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5615 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5618 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5619 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5620 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5621 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5622 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5627 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5630 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5631 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5632 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5637 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5643 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5649 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5652 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5653 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5654 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5655 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5656 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5657 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5661 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5667 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5670 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5674 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5677 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5678 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5679 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5683 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5686 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5690 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5696 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5699 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5703 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5706 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5710 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5712 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5716 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5719 postinst, postrm, etc.
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5723 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5729 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5732 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5733 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5734 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5735 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5736 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5740 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5743 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5744 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5748 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5751 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5755 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5758 installing package files into.
5759 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5764 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5768 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5772 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5774 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5778 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5781 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5785 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5788 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5789 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5790 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5791 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5795 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5797 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5798 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5799 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5800 multiple binary packages.
5801 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5802 should rebuild them with this version.
5803 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5807 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5809 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5810 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5814 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5817 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5821 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5823 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5824 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5825 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5826 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5827 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5828 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5829 debian/README.debian.
5830 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5831 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5832 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5833 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5834 in a few situations.)
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5838 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5844 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5850 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5853 * Fixed several man pages.
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5857 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5860 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5861 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5865 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5867 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5868 is ready for general use.
5869 * Added man pages for all commands.
5870 * Multiple binary package support.
5871 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5872 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5873 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5875 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5876 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5877 auto-installed as parameters.
5878 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5880 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5883 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5884 the package build directory it is to act on.
5885 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5886 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5887 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5891 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5893 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5894 ready to replace debstd.
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400