1 debhelper (7.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
4 contributed by Modestas Vainius
5 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
6 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives in other
7 but the top level directory. Closes: #530597
8 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
9 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
10 that support it. Closes: #480577
11 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
12 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
13 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
15 - Adds support for cmake.
16 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:26:08 -0400
21 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
27 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
30 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
31 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
32 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
33 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
35 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
36 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
37 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
41 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
47 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
54 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
57 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
61 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
65 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
66 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
68 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
69 file support. Closes: #494914
70 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
74 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
77 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
78 parameters. Closes: #527256
79 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
80 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
81 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
85 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
89 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
90 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
91 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
95 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
98 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
99 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
100 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
104 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
107 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
108 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
110 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
111 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
112 by triggers). Closes: #521181
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
116 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
120 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
124 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
127 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
128 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
129 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
130 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
135 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
141 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
143 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
144 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
145 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
146 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
147 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
148 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
150 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
151 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
152 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
153 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
154 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
155 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
159 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
162 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
163 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
164 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
165 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
166 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
168 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
172 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
174 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
178 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
180 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
181 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
182 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
183 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
184 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
185 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
186 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
187 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
188 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
189 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
190 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
194 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
196 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
197 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
199 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
200 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
201 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
202 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
204 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
205 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
209 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
211 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
212 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
213 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
214 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
215 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
216 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
217 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
219 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
220 that uses them. Affected options are:
221 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
222 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
223 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
224 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
225 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
226 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
227 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
228 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
229 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
230 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
231 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
232 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
236 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
243 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
249 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
251 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
252 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
254 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
255 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
256 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
257 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
258 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
260 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
262 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
263 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
264 rules (see bug #509756).
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
268 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
274 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
275 * Typo. Closes: #493062
276 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
277 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
281 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
284 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
285 empty files. Closes: #490937
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
289 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
295 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
302 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
305 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
306 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
307 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
308 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
313 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
315 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
316 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
317 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
318 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
322 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
325 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
326 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
327 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
328 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
329 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
333 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
340 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
342 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
343 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
344 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
345 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
346 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
347 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
348 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
349 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
350 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
351 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
355 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
358 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
359 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
360 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
361 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
363 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
364 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
365 breaking backwards compatability.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
369 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
372 message in perl 5.10.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
376 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
382 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Convert copyright file to new format.
385 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
389 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
392 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
396 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
399 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
400 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
401 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
402 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
403 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
404 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
405 logging by dh_listpackages.
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
409 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
412 run and there are no packages of that type.
413 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
414 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
415 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
416 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
418 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
419 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
423 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
425 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
426 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
427 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
431 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
434 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
435 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
437 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
438 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
439 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
440 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
441 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
442 planned but not yet implemented.)
443 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
444 if the Makefile has such a target.
445 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
446 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
447 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
448 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
449 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
450 but not yet implemented.)
451 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
452 recommended default, especially when using dh.
453 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
454 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
455 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
457 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
459 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
460 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
462 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
463 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
464 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
469 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
472 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
473 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
477 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
479 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
480 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
481 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
485 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
491 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
497 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
500 just those installed by the program.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
504 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
507 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
508 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
512 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
514 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
515 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
516 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
517 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
518 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
522 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
525 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
526 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
530 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
533 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
534 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
538 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
541 with policy. Closes: #461392
542 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
543 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
544 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
545 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
546 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
550 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
553 Closes: #460340, #460351
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
557 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
560 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
561 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
562 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
563 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
567 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
570 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
571 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
572 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
573 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
574 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
575 package build directory won't work.
576 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
577 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
578 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
579 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
580 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
581 mode. Closes: #459426
582 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
587 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
590 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
594 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
596 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
598 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
599 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
600 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
601 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
602 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
603 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
607 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
609 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
610 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
611 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
612 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
613 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
617 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
620 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
621 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
622 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
623 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
624 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
628 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
631 debian/package.triggers files.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
635 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
638 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
642 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
645 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
646 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
647 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
648 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
653 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
656 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
660 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
663 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
664 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
666 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
671 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
675 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
676 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
677 * Typo. Closes: #441272
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
681 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
688 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
695 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
698 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
700 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
701 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
702 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
704 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
705 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
706 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
710 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
713 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
714 * Update urls to web page.
715 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
717 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
718 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
722 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
725 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
726 - typo in alternatives call
727 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
729 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
730 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
734 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
737 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
742 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
748 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
754 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
757 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
759 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
760 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
761 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
762 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
763 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
764 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
765 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
766 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
767 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
768 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
769 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
773 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
776 package install. Closes: #415717
777 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
778 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
779 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
780 script and then remove the python files.
781 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
782 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
783 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
784 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
785 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
786 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
787 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
788 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
789 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
790 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
791 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
792 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
793 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
797 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
800 * Correct typo in french translation
803 * Typo. Closes: #400571
804 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
806 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
808 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
809 Closes: #406921, #381940
810 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
812 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
813 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
814 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
815 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
816 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
817 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
818 specified). Closes: #381851
819 * Misc minor changes.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
823 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
830 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
831 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
835 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
841 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
842 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
845 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
846 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
848 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
849 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
850 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
851 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
855 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
858 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
861 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
865 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
871 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
877 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
878 a difficult situation.
879 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
880 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
881 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
882 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
883 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
884 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
885 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
886 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
887 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
888 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
892 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Non-maintainer upload.
895 * Update of dh_python
896 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
897 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
899 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
900 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
901 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
902 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
903 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
905 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
907 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Non-maintainer upload.
910 * Update of dh_python
911 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
912 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
913 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
914 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
915 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
916 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
917 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
918 specific python version. Closes: #373853
919 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
920 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
922 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
923 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
924 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
925 the not too-distant future).
926 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
927 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
928 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
929 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
930 thus made the build fail.
932 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
934 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Non-maintainer upload.
937 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
939 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
941 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
944 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
945 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
946 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
947 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
948 package. Closes: #301424
949 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
950 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
951 fonts). Closes: #372686
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
955 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
961 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
962 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
963 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
964 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
965 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
966 above, but already depends on that.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
970 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
973 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
974 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
975 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
976 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
977 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
981 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
987 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
990 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
993 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
994 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
998 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1001 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1005 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1009 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1010 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1011 new version (0.24.1).
1012 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1013 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1016 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1017 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1018 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1019 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1020 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1021 new directory on their own.
1022 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1023 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1027 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1030 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1031 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1032 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1033 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1037 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1040 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1041 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1042 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1043 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1044 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1048 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1054 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1058 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1059 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1063 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1064 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1068 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1070 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1071 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1073 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1074 ignored. Closes: #337664
1076 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1081 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1087 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1092 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1093 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1094 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1095 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1096 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1097 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1098 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1102 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1105 version. Closes: #350607
1106 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1107 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1108 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1109 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1113 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1116 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1117 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1118 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1122 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1129 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1135 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1138 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1142 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1145 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1146 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1147 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1148 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1149 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1150 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1154 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1157 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1158 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1163 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1166 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1170 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1173 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1177 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1180 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1181 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1182 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1183 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1184 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1185 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1189 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1193 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1194 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1195 link. Closes: #346405
1196 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1198 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1199 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1200 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1201 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1202 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1203 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1204 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1208 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1215 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1221 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1224 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1228 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1231 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1236 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1240 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1241 installed. Closes: #342033
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1245 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1248 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1249 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1250 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1255 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1261 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1267 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1271 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1272 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1273 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1277 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1280 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1285 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1292 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1298 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1301 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1302 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1303 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1304 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1305 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1306 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1307 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1309 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1313 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1316 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1317 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1321 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1324 in standard man dirs.
1325 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1329 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1335 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1338 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1343 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1350 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1357 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1360 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1361 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1365 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1368 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1369 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1370 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1372 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1374 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1380 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1386 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1389 mode. Closes: #324161
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1393 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1396 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1397 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1398 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1399 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1404 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1407 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1408 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1409 is necesary for sanity.
1410 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1411 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1416 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1418 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1419 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1423 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1426 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1430 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1436 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1439 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1440 released, so use at your own risk.
1441 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1442 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1444 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1445 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1446 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1447 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1448 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1449 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1450 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1451 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1452 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1453 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1454 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1455 including twice per config file line now..
1456 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1457 and simplfy the rules file.
1458 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1459 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1460 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1462 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1463 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1467 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1470 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1474 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1477 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1481 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1484 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1488 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1491 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1492 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1493 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1494 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1495 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1496 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1500 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1503 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1504 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1505 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1510 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1513 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1514 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1519 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1522 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1523 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1524 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1529 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1532 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1533 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1534 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1538 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1544 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1551 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1554 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1555 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1556 unknown. Closes: #282924
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1560 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1567 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Spanish man page updates.
1570 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1575 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1581 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1584 * dh_desktop: reindent
1585 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1586 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1590 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1596 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1598 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1602 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1604 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1608 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1611 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1612 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1616 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1622 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1628 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1635 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1638 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1642 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1645 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1646 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1647 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1648 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1649 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1650 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1652 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1653 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1654 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1655 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1656 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1657 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1658 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1659 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1660 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1661 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1662 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1663 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1664 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1665 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1666 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1667 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1671 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1678 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1681 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1685 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1688 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1692 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1695 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1699 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1702 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1706 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1712 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1718 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1724 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1727 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1728 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1729 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1733 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1736 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1740 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1743 but occasionally right and necessary.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1747 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1750 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1751 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1752 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1753 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1754 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1758 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1761 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1763 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1764 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1765 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1766 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1767 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1768 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1769 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1770 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1771 postinst scripts for udebs.
1772 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1776 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1779 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1781 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1782 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1786 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1792 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1799 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1806 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1809 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1813 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1816 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1820 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1823 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1826 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1827 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1831 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1837 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1840 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1844 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1847 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1848 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1849 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1851 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1853 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1854 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1855 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1859 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1862 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1867 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1870 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1871 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1872 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1877 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1883 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1889 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1892 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1893 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1894 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1895 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1896 associated -dbg packages.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1900 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1903 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1907 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1910 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1914 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1917 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1921 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1924 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1929 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1932 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1936 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1939 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1944 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1947 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1951 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1955 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1956 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1957 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1958 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1959 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1960 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1961 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1962 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1963 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1964 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1968 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1971 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1976 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1979 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1980 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1984 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1987 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1988 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1993 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1996 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2000 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2003 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2010 out section number. Closes: #204731
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2033 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2036 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2037 removal. Closes: #204286
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2041 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2044 renaming. Closes: #203548
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2048 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2051 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2052 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2056 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2062 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2068 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2074 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2077 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2078 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2079 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2083 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2086 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2087 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2091 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2097 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2107 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2112 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2115 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2119 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2122 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2124 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2125 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2129 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2132 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2140 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2144 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2150 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2152 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2156 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2159 it break hard links (see #188663).
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2163 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2166 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2170 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2176 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2180 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2181 debconf-mergetemplates
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2185 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2188 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2192 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2195 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2199 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2202 * Update debhelper(1).
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2206 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2209 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2210 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2211 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2212 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2213 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2217 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2220 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2221 the shell. Closes: #178524
2222 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2226 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2229 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2233 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2236 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2240 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2243 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2244 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2245 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2246 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2251 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2254 files from installation.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2258 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2261 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2262 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2266 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2269 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2273 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2276 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2280 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2286 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2292 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2296 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2297 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2299 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2303 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2306 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2307 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2308 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2309 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2313 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2316 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2320 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2323 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2324 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2328 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2332 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2337 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2347 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2348 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2349 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2354 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2357 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2358 practice. Closes: #163303
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2362 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2375 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2378 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2380 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2381 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2382 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2383 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2384 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2388 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2391 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2396 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2402 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2409 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2412 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2417 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2423 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2429 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2442 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2445 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2446 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2447 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2448 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2453 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2459 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2466 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2469 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2470 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2474 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2477 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2478 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2479 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2480 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2481 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2485 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2488 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2490 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2495 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2498 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2505 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2506 right thing. Closes: #150644
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2510 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Stupid, evil typo.
2513 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2517 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2524 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2527 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2528 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2533 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2539 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2542 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2546 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2549 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2550 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2555 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2558 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2562 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2568 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2571 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2572 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2576 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2582 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Removing perl warning message.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2588 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2591 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2592 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2593 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2594 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2595 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2596 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2597 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2598 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2602 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2618 debconf-mergetemplate.
2619 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2620 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2624 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2627 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2628 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2629 dh_install, which ...
2630 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2631 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2632 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2633 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2634 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2635 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2636 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2637 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2638 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2639 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2640 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2641 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2642 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2643 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2644 other minor changes.
2645 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2646 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2647 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2648 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2649 course there's -X ..)
2650 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2651 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2652 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2654 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2655 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2656 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2657 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2658 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2663 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2669 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2672 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2676 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2682 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2688 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2694 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2700 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2703 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2704 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2705 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2706 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2708 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2709 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2713 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2719 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2722 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2726 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2729 upset. Closes: #131322
2731 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2733 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2736 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2737 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2738 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2739 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2740 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2741 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2742 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2743 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2744 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2745 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2746 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2747 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2748 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2749 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2750 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2752 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2756 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2759 - Better indenting of generated code.
2760 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2764 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2768 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2769 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2770 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2771 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2772 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2773 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2774 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2778 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2781 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2785 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2788 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2789 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2790 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2791 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2792 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2793 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2794 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2795 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2796 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2797 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2798 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2799 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2800 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2801 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2802 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2807 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2813 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2816 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2817 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2821 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2824 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2825 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2829 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2835 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2838 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2839 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2840 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2841 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2842 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2847 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2853 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2856 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2860 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2863 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2868 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2874 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2877 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2881 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2887 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2891 Also some indentation fixes.
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2895 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2898 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2899 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2900 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2901 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2902 Closes: #106514, #85520
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2906 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2912 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2918 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2924 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2930 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2936 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2939 change it in debhelper v4..
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2943 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2949 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2952 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2956 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2959 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2963 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2969 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2972 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2973 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2974 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2975 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2976 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2977 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2978 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2979 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2980 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2981 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2982 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2983 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2987 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2990 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2994 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3001 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3004 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3005 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3006 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3007 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3008 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3009 program those options go to. So, for example,
3010 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3011 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3012 something complex. Closes: #89311
3013 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3017 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3020 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3021 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3022 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3026 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3029 through loop. Closes: #98598
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3033 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * Missing semi-colon.
3036 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3037 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3041 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3044 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3045 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3046 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3050 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3053 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3054 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3058 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3061 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3065 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3068 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3069 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3073 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3076 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3077 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3078 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3082 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3085 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3086 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3087 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3091 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3094 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3098 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3104 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3110 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3116 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3122 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3125 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3129 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3132 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3133 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3134 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3135 followed. Closes: #85483
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3139 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3141 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3142 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3143 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3147 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3150 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3151 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3152 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3153 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3154 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3155 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3156 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3157 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3158 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3159 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3160 Closes: #88464, #77743
3161 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3162 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3163 us to deal with that gracefully.
3164 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3166 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3167 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3168 a while, Closes: #51225
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3172 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3178 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3181 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3185 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3189 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3194 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3197 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3198 don't make packlist files.
3199 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3200 debhelper coding standards.
3201 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3202 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3206 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3209 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3213 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3216 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3217 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3218 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3219 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3220 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3221 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3222 but is mildly deprecated.
3223 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3224 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3225 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3226 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3227 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3228 switching to statoverrides..
3229 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3230 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3231 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3232 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3233 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3234 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3236 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3237 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3238 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3239 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3240 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3241 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3242 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3243 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3244 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3246 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3247 variable names, pod man pages).
3248 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3249 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3250 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3251 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3252 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3253 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3254 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3258 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3264 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3271 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3274 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3278 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3280 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3281 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3282 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3286 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3288 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3289 they were previously ignored.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3293 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3295 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3296 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3300 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3302 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3303 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3304 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3308 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3310 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3314 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3316 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3317 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3321 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3323 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3324 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3325 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3326 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3327 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3328 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3329 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3330 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3331 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3332 it is an obsolete program.
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3336 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3338 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3342 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3346 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3348 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3352 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3354 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3356 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3358 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3362 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3368 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * typo: Closes, #78567
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3374 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3380 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3386 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3389 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3390 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3391 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3392 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3393 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3397 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3400 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3405 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3408 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3409 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3410 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3411 backwards-compatability.
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3415 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3418 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3419 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3420 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3421 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3422 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3423 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3425 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3426 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3427 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3429 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3431 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3432 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3433 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3434 should now be raised to severity important..
3435 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3436 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3440 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3443 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3448 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3454 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3460 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3466 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3473 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3476 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3477 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3478 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3479 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3483 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3489 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3492 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3493 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3494 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3495 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3496 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3497 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3502 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3505 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3509 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3515 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3518 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3523 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3526 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3527 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3528 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3529 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3533 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3537 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3540 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3543 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3544 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3547 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3549 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3550 the TODO entry about it.
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3554 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3561 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3564 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3565 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3569 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3572 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3573 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3574 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3575 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3579 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3585 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3592 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3595 (this appears to be logal).
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3599 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3602 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3603 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3604 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3605 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3609 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3615 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3618 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3619 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3620 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3621 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3625 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3634 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3638 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3645 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3648 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3649 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3650 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3655 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3662 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3668 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3671 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3672 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3673 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3674 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3675 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3676 notice until v2 is complete.
3677 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3678 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3679 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3680 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3681 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3682 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3684 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3685 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3686 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3687 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3691 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3697 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3704 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3707 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3711 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3718 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3721 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3722 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3723 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3724 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3729 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3732 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3733 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3734 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3739 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3742 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3743 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3747 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3750 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3754 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3757 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3761 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3768 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3771 depend on the build and install targets.
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3775 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3778 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3782 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3789 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3795 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3801 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3804 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3805 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3806 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3807 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3808 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3809 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3811 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3812 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3813 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3814 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3815 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3816 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3817 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3821 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3827 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3833 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3836 right place. Closes: #55065
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3840 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3847 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3850 * Copyright date updates.
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3854 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3857 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3862 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3868 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3875 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3881 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3887 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3893 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3896 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3897 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3898 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3899 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3900 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3901 bits until all files have been registered.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3905 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * dh_installmanpages:
3908 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3909 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3910 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3911 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3912 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3913 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3914 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3915 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3916 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3917 otherwise change the result at all.
3919 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3920 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3921 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3922 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3923 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3928 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3934 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3937 act on files that don't exist.
3938 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3939 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3940 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3942 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3943 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3944 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3945 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3949 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3955 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3961 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3964 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3968 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3971 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3973 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3974 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3975 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3979 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3982 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3983 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3984 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3985 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3986 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3987 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3988 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3990 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3992 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3996 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4003 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4009 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4015 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4018 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4022 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4028 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4034 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4037 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4038 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4039 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4040 I made some changes, though:
4041 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4042 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4043 that is a clear violation of policy.
4044 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4045 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4046 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4047 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4048 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4049 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4050 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4051 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4052 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4054 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4058 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4064 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4067 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4071 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4074 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4075 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4080 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4086 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4093 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4096 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4097 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4098 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4099 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4100 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4101 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4102 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4106 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4112 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4116 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4117 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4121 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4127 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4130 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4134 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4137 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4138 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4142 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4144 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4149 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4153 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4157 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4160 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4161 for the dependancies to be generated.
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4165 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4168 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4172 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4175 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4176 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4177 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4182 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4185 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4186 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4190 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4196 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4202 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4205 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4209 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4215 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4218 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4219 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4220 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4221 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4222 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4223 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4224 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4225 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4226 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4227 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4228 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4229 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4233 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4236 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4237 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4239 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4240 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4241 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4242 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4243 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4244 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4246 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4247 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4251 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4254 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4258 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4265 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4267 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4268 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4273 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4276 for building debhelper.
4277 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4281 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4291 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4295 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4298 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4299 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4300 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4301 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4302 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4303 it's always available.
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4307 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4310 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4311 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4312 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4316 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4319 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4320 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4324 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4330 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4333 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4343 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4346 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4347 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4348 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4352 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4355 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4360 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4363 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4364 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4366 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4367 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4371 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4377 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4383 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4386 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4390 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4393 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4394 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4396 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4400 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4403 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4404 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4405 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4409 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4412 things if CDPATH is set.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4416 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4422 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4425 seems to make sense for the transition.
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4429 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4432 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4437 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4440 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4441 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4445 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4448 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4452 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4455 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4456 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4457 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4458 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4462 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4468 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4471 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4472 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4473 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4474 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4475 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4476 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4477 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4478 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4479 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4480 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4485 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4488 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4489 * README: mention doc/v2
4490 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4491 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4495 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4497 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4498 be using this script RSN.
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4502 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4505 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4506 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4507 more than 1 init script.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4511 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4514 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4518 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * Changed perl version detection.
4521 * Changed call to find.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4525 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4528 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4530 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4535 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * Really include dh_installpam.
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4541 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4544 * Wrote man page for same.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4548 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4551 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4552 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4557 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4564 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4567 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4568 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4569 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4570 x bit was being set!
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4574 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4577 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4578 well. (Closes: 38900)
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4582 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4585 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4586 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4590 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4596 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4603 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4609 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4612 help from Julian Gilbey.
4613 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4614 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4615 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4616 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4617 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4618 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4619 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4624 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4630 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4637 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4643 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4649 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4652 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4656 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4659 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4663 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4666 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4670 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4676 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4679 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4683 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4689 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4695 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4698 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4699 may be deleted. (#35845)
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4703 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * Various man page enhancements.
4706 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4711 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4714 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4715 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4719 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4722 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4723 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4724 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4726 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4727 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4732 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4738 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * Another very minor typo fix.
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4744 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * Very minor typo fix.
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4750 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4753 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4754 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4758 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4764 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4767 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4768 variables properly (#34850).
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4772 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4778 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4781 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4782 (automatically generated by build process).
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4786 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4788 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4792 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4795 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4796 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4798 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4802 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4805 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4809 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * README: minor typo fix.
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4815 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4818 leave it at that. :-)
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4822 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4828 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4834 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4837 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4838 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4839 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4843 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4846 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4850 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4853 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4857 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4860 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4861 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4862 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4863 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4867 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4870 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4871 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4872 Craig Small for spotting this.
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4876 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4879 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4880 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4884 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4890 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4893 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4897 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4899 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4900 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4901 working on the last version of debhelper.
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4905 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4908 being made. (#23255)
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4912 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4914 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4918 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4921 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4925 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4928 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4929 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4930 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4931 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4935 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4938 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4939 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4940 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4941 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4943 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4944 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4946 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4951 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4957 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4963 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4966 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4967 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4968 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4969 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4970 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4971 suidregister actually supports it.
4972 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4973 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4977 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4984 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4987 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4988 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4989 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4990 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4991 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4992 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4993 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4997 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4999 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5000 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5004 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5007 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5008 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5009 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5010 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5014 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5017 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5019 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5020 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5021 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5022 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5023 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5024 effect, either. (#30118)
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5028 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5034 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5037 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5038 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5042 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5048 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5051 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5052 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5053 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5054 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5058 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5061 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5062 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5066 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5072 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5075 packages, painlessly.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5079 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5085 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5091 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5097 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * The perl conversion is complete.
5101 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5103 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5104 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5105 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5110 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5113 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5114 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5115 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5119 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5122 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5124 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5126 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5127 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5131 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5134 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5135 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5139 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5145 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5148 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5149 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5150 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5151 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5152 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5156 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5159 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5160 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5161 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5162 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5166 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5169 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5173 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5176 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5177 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5178 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5179 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5180 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5181 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5182 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5183 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5187 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5193 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5196 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5197 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5198 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5203 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5206 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5210 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5213 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5217 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5220 sections of shared libraries.
5221 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5222 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5223 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5224 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5225 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5226 things you don't want them to.
5227 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5228 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5232 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5235 shared libraries. (#26414)
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5239 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5241 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5242 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5243 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5244 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5248 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5252 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5254 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5255 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5256 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5257 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5258 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5262 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5265 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5269 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5272 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5273 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5278 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5281 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5285 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5288 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5289 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5290 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5291 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5292 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5294 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5295 remove debian/files properly.
5296 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5297 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5298 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5299 * Removed bogus menu file.
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5303 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5306 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5310 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5313 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5314 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5315 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5316 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5317 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5318 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5322 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5325 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5326 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5327 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5328 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5332 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5339 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5342 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5343 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5345 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5346 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5347 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5348 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5349 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5350 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5354 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5357 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5358 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5359 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5360 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5361 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5362 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5363 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5364 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5365 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5366 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5367 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5368 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5369 passed any switches.
5370 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5374 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5377 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5378 at all for a long while.
5379 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5380 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5381 large chunks in the process.
5382 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5383 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5384 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5389 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5392 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5394 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5399 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5402 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5403 that don't always have the same files in them.
5404 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5405 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5406 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5410 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5414 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5415 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5416 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5417 updating 27 man pages.
5418 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5419 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5420 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5421 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5422 programs act on. (#25247)
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5426 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5430 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5431 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5432 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5433 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5434 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5435 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5440 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5442 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5447 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5454 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5457 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5461 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5467 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5470 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5471 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5472 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5473 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5474 package by accident.
5475 * Is version 1.0 next?
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5479 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5482 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5483 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5487 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5490 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5491 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5492 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5493 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5494 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5496 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5501 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5504 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5505 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5509 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5512 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5516 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5519 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5520 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5525 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5531 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5533 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5534 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5535 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5540 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5546 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5549 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5550 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5551 past week. Thanks, guys!
5553 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5554 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5555 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5556 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5557 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5558 would do in the same situation.
5559 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5560 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5562 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5564 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5565 permissions changed.
5566 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5567 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5568 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5569 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5570 files are treated identically.
5571 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5572 * Minor man page fixes.
5573 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5574 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5575 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5579 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5582 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5583 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5584 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5585 use -X multiple times, too.
5586 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5587 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5591 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5594 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5595 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5599 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5602 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5606 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5609 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5610 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5611 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5612 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5613 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5614 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5615 shape if you're starting a new package.
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5619 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5622 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5626 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5629 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5630 because of missing symlinks.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5634 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5640 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5643 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5644 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5645 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5646 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5647 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5649 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5650 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5654 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5656 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5657 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5658 to be changed after the fact :-)
5659 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5663 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5665 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5666 no version string after the -V.
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5670 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5672 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5673 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5678 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5681 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5685 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5688 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5689 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5690 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5691 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5692 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5693 I always welcome corrections!
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5697 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5703 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5706 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5707 * Documented this new switch.
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5711 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5714 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5715 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5716 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5717 no packages use the old behavior.
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5721 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5724 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5725 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5729 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5732 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5736 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5742 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5745 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5749 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5752 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5753 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5754 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5758 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5764 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5767 into the source package by accident.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5771 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5774 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5775 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5776 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5777 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5778 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5779 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5784 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5788 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5789 inspired to implement some of it.
5790 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5794 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5797 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5801 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5803 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5804 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5805 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5809 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5812 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5813 have done.) (#17598)
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5817 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5823 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5829 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5832 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5836 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5839 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5840 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5844 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5846 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5847 argument processor in perl.
5848 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5849 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5850 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5851 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5855 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5858 type directories. (#16933)
5859 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5860 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5861 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5862 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5863 are supported. (#16935)
5864 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5869 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5872 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5876 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5878 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5880 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5881 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5882 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5883 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5884 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5885 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5889 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5891 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5892 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5893 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5895 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5896 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5897 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5898 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5899 a given package, or -i or -a.
5900 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5901 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5902 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5903 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5904 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5905 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5906 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5907 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5908 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5910 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5911 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5912 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5916 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5918 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5919 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5920 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5925 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5928 does not have a section.
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5932 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5935 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5936 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5937 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5941 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * Fixed typo #16215.
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5947 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5950 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5951 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5952 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5953 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5954 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5959 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5962 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5963 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5964 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5969 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5971 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5975 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5981 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5983 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5984 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5985 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5986 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5987 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5988 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5989 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5993 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5999 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6002 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6006 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6009 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6010 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6011 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6015 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6018 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6022 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6028 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6031 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6035 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6037 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6038 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6042 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6048 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6051 postinst, postrm, etc.
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6055 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6061 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6064 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6065 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6066 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6067 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6068 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6072 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6074 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6075 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6076 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6080 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6083 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6087 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6090 installing package files into.
6091 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6096 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6098 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6100 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6104 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6106 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6110 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6113 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6117 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6120 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6121 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6122 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6123 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6127 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6129 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6130 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6131 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6132 multiple binary packages.
6133 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6134 should rebuild them with this version.
6135 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6139 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6141 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6142 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6146 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6149 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6153 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6155 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6156 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6157 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6158 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6159 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6160 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6161 debian/README.debian.
6162 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6163 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6164 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6165 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6166 in a few situations.)
6168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6170 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6172 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6176 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6178 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6182 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6184 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6185 * Fixed several man pages.
6187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6189 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6191 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6192 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6193 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6197 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6199 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6200 is ready for general use.
6201 * Added man pages for all commands.
6202 * Multiple binary package support.
6203 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6204 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6205 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6207 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6208 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6209 auto-installed as parameters.
6210 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6212 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6215 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6216 the package build directory it is to act on.
6217 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6218 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6219 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6223 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6225 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6226 ready to replace debstd.
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400