1 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
4 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
5 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
6 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
7 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
8 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
11 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
13 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
14 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
15 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
16 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
17 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
21 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
24 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
25 (It was only run once due to logging.)
26 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
27 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
28 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
29 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
30 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
31 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
32 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
33 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
34 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
35 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
39 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
43 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
46 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
47 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
51 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
53 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
54 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
55 flag with arch all/any packages.
56 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
57 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
58 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
59 situation. Closes: #540794
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
63 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
67 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
68 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
69 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
70 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
71 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
74 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
75 the default. Closes: #538201
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
80 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
84 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
85 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
86 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
87 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
88 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
90 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
91 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
92 * Above Closes: #491117
93 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
98 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
104 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
105 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
106 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
110 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
113 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
114 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
115 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
116 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
117 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
122 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
124 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
125 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
126 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
130 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
132 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
136 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
138 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
139 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
141 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
142 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
143 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
147 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
149 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
150 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
154 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
160 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
162 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
163 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
164 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
169 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
171 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
175 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
178 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
179 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
180 created by using `python' first during build and install.
182 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
187 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
189 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
193 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
195 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
196 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
200 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
202 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
206 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
208 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
212 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
214 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
215 contributed by Modestas Vainius
216 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
217 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
218 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
219 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
220 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
221 that support it. Closes: #480577
222 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
223 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
224 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
226 - Adds support for cmake.
227 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
228 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
230 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
232 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
233 that use them. The options are:
234 --sourcedir, --destdir
235 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
236 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
237 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
238 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
239 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
243 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
249 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
252 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
253 default. Closes: #537140
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
257 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
260 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
261 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
265 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
268 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
272 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
275 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
279 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
282 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
284 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
285 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
286 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
290 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
293 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
294 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
295 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
299 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
302 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
303 warning or deprecation message.
304 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
305 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
306 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
307 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
308 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
309 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
310 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
311 Closes: #534639, #357434
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
315 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
321 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
324 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
325 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
326 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
327 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
329 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
330 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
331 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
335 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
341 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
348 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
351 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
355 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
359 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
360 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
362 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
363 file support. Closes: #494914
364 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
368 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
371 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
372 parameters. Closes: #527256
373 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
374 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
375 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
379 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
383 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
384 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
385 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
389 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
392 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
393 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
394 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
398 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
401 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
402 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
404 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
405 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
406 by triggers). Closes: #521181
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
410 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
414 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
418 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
420 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
421 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
422 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
423 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
424 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
429 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
435 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
438 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
439 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
440 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
441 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
442 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
444 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
445 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
446 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
447 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
448 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
449 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
453 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
456 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
457 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
458 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
459 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
460 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
462 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
466 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
468 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
472 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
474 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
475 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
476 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
477 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
478 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
479 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
480 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
481 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
482 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
483 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
484 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
488 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
490 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
491 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
493 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
494 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
495 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
496 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
498 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
499 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
503 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
505 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
506 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
507 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
508 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
509 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
510 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
511 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
513 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
514 that uses them. Affected options are:
515 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
516 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
517 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
518 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
519 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
520 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
521 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
522 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
523 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
524 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
525 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
526 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
530 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
537 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
543 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
545 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
546 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
548 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
549 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
550 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
551 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
552 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
554 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
556 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
557 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
558 rules (see bug #509756).
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
562 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
568 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
569 * Typo. Closes: #493062
570 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
571 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
575 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
578 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
579 empty files. Closes: #490937
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
583 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
589 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
596 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
599 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
600 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
601 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
602 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
607 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
609 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
610 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
611 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
612 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
616 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
619 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
620 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
621 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
622 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
623 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
627 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
634 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
636 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
637 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
638 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
639 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
640 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
641 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
642 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
643 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
644 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
645 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
649 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
652 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
653 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
654 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
655 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
657 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
658 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
659 breaking backwards compatability.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
663 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
666 message in perl 5.10.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
670 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
676 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Convert copyright file to new format.
679 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
683 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
686 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
690 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
693 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
694 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
695 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
696 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
697 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
698 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
699 logging by dh_listpackages.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
703 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
706 run and there are no packages of that type.
707 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
708 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
709 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
710 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
712 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
713 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
717 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
719 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
720 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
721 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
725 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
728 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
729 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
731 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
732 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
733 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
734 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
735 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
736 planned but not yet implemented.)
737 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
738 if the Makefile has such a target.
739 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
740 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
741 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
742 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
743 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
744 but not yet implemented.)
745 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
746 recommended default, especially when using dh.
747 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
748 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
749 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
751 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
753 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
754 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
756 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
757 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
758 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
763 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
766 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
767 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
771 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
773 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
774 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
775 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
779 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
785 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
787 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
791 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
794 just those installed by the program.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
798 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
801 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
802 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
806 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
809 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
810 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
811 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
812 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
816 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
819 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
820 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
824 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
827 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
828 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
832 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
834 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
835 with policy. Closes: #461392
836 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
837 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
838 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
839 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
840 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
844 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
847 Closes: #460340, #460351
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
851 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
854 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
855 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
856 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
857 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
861 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
864 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
865 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
866 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
867 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
868 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
869 package build directory won't work.
870 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
871 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
872 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
873 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
874 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
875 mode. Closes: #459426
876 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
881 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
883 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
884 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
888 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
892 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
893 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
894 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
895 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
896 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
897 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
901 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
904 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
905 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
906 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
907 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
911 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
914 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
915 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
916 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
917 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
918 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
922 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
925 debian/package.triggers files.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
929 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
932 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
936 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
939 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
940 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
941 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
942 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
947 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
950 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
954 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
957 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
958 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
960 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
965 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
969 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
970 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
971 * Typo. Closes: #441272
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
975 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
982 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
989 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
992 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
994 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
995 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
996 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
998 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
999 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1000 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1004 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1007 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1008 * Update urls to web page.
1009 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1010 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1011 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1012 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1016 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1019 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1020 - typo in alternatives call
1021 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1023 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1024 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1028 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1031 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1036 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1042 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1048 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1051 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1053 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1054 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1055 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1056 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1057 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1058 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1059 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1060 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1061 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1062 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1063 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1067 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1070 package install. Closes: #415717
1071 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1072 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1073 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1074 script and then remove the python files.
1075 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1076 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1077 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1078 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1079 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1080 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1081 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1082 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1083 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1084 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1085 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1086 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1087 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1091 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * Correct typo in french translation
1097 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1098 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1100 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1102 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1103 Closes: #406921, #381940
1104 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1106 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1107 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1108 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1109 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1110 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1111 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1112 specified). Closes: #381851
1113 * Misc minor changes.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1117 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1124 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1125 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1129 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1135 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1136 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1139 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1140 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1142 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1143 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1144 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1145 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1149 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1152 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1155 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1159 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1165 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1171 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1172 a difficult situation.
1173 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1174 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1175 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1176 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1177 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1178 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1179 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1180 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1181 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1182 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1186 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Non-maintainer upload.
1189 * Update of dh_python
1190 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1191 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1193 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1194 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1195 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1196 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1197 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1199 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1201 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Non-maintainer upload.
1204 * Update of dh_python
1205 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1206 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1207 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1208 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1209 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1210 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1211 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1212 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1213 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1214 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1216 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1217 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1218 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1219 the not too-distant future).
1220 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1221 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1222 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1223 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1224 thus made the build fail.
1226 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1228 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Non-maintainer upload.
1231 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1233 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1235 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1238 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1239 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1240 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1241 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1242 package. Closes: #301424
1243 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1244 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1245 fonts). Closes: #372686
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1249 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1255 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1256 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1257 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1258 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1259 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1260 above, but already depends on that.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1264 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1267 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1268 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1269 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1270 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1271 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1275 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1281 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1287 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1288 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1292 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1295 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1299 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1303 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1304 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1305 new version (0.24.1).
1306 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1307 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1310 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1311 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1312 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1313 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1314 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1315 new directory on their own.
1316 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1317 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1321 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1324 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1325 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1326 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1327 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1331 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1334 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1335 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1336 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1337 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1338 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1342 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1348 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1352 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1353 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1357 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1358 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1362 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1364 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1365 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1367 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1368 ignored. Closes: #337664
1370 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1375 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1381 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1386 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1387 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1388 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1389 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1390 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1391 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1392 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1396 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1399 version. Closes: #350607
1400 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1401 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1402 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1403 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1407 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1410 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1411 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1412 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1416 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1423 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1429 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1432 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1436 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1439 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1440 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1441 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1442 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1443 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1444 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1448 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1451 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1452 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1457 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1460 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1464 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1467 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1471 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1474 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1475 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1476 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1477 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1478 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1479 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1483 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1487 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1488 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1489 link. Closes: #346405
1490 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1492 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1493 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1494 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1495 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1496 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1497 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1498 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1502 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1509 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1515 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1518 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1522 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1525 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1530 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1534 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1535 installed. Closes: #342033
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1539 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1542 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1543 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1544 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1549 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1555 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1561 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1565 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1566 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1567 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1571 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1574 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1579 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1586 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1592 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1595 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1596 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1597 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1598 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1599 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1600 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1601 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1603 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1607 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1610 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1611 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1615 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1618 in standard man dirs.
1619 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1623 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1629 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1632 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1637 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1644 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1651 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1654 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1655 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1659 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1662 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1663 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1664 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1666 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1668 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1674 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1680 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1683 mode. Closes: #324161
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1687 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1690 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1691 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1692 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1693 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1698 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1701 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1702 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1703 is necesary for sanity.
1704 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1705 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1710 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1712 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1713 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1717 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1720 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1724 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1730 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1733 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1734 released, so use at your own risk.
1735 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1736 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1738 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1739 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1740 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1741 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1742 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1743 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1744 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1745 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1746 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1747 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1748 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1749 including twice per config file line now..
1750 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1751 and simplfy the rules file.
1752 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1753 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1754 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1756 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1757 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1761 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1764 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1768 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1771 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1775 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1778 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1782 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1785 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1786 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1787 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1788 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1789 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1790 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1794 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1797 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1798 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1799 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1804 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1807 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1808 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1813 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1816 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1817 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1818 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1823 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1826 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1827 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1828 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1832 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1838 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1845 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1848 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1849 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1850 unknown. Closes: #282924
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1854 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1861 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Spanish man page updates.
1864 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1869 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1875 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1878 * dh_desktop: reindent
1879 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1880 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1884 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1890 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1892 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1896 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1898 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1902 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1905 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1906 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1910 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1916 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1929 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1932 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1936 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1939 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1940 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1941 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1942 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1943 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1944 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1946 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1947 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1948 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1949 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1950 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1951 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1952 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1953 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1954 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1955 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1956 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1957 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1958 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1959 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1960 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1961 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1965 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1972 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1975 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1979 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1982 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1986 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1989 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1993 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1996 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2000 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2006 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2012 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2018 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2021 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2022 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2023 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2027 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2030 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2034 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2037 but occasionally right and necessary.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2041 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2044 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2045 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2046 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2047 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2048 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2052 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2055 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2057 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2058 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2059 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2060 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2061 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2062 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2063 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2064 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2065 postinst scripts for udebs.
2066 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2070 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2073 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2075 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2076 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2080 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2086 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2093 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2100 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2103 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2107 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2110 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2114 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2117 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2120 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2121 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2125 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2131 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2134 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2138 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2141 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2142 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2143 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2145 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2147 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2148 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2149 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2153 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2156 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2161 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2164 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2165 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2166 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2171 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2177 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2183 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2186 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2187 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2188 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2189 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2190 associated -dbg packages.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2194 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2197 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2201 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2204 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2208 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2211 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2215 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2218 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2226 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2230 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2233 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2238 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2241 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2245 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2249 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2250 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2251 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2252 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2253 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2254 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2255 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2256 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2257 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2258 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2262 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2265 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2273 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2274 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2278 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2281 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2282 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2287 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2290 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2297 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2304 out section number. Closes: #204731
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2308 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2315 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2321 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2327 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2330 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2331 removal. Closes: #204286
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2335 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2338 renaming. Closes: #203548
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2345 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2346 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2350 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2356 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2362 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2368 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2371 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2372 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2373 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2377 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2380 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2381 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2385 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2401 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2409 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2413 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2416 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2418 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2419 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2423 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2426 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2434 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2438 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2446 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2453 it break hard links (see #188663).
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2457 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2460 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2464 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2470 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2474 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2475 debconf-mergetemplates
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2479 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2482 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2486 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2489 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2493 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2496 * Update debhelper(1).
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2500 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2503 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2504 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2505 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2506 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2507 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2511 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2514 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2515 the shell. Closes: #178524
2516 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2520 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2523 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2527 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2530 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2534 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2537 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2538 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2539 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2540 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2545 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2548 files from installation.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2552 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2555 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2556 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2560 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2563 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2567 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2570 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2574 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2580 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2586 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2590 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2591 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2593 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2597 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2600 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2601 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2602 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2603 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2607 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2610 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2614 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2617 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2618 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2622 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2626 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2631 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2637 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2641 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2642 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2643 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2648 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2651 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2652 practice. Closes: #163303
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2656 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2662 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2669 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2672 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2674 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2675 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2676 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2677 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2678 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2682 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2685 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2690 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2696 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2703 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2706 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2711 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2717 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2723 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2729 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2736 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2739 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2740 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2741 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2742 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2747 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2753 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2760 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2763 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2764 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2768 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2771 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2772 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2773 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2774 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2775 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2779 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2782 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2784 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2789 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2792 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2796 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2799 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2800 right thing. Closes: #150644
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2804 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Stupid, evil typo.
2807 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2811 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2818 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2821 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2822 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2833 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2836 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2840 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2843 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2844 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2849 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2852 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2856 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2862 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2865 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2866 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2870 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2876 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * Removing perl warning message.
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2882 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2885 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2886 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2887 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2888 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2889 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2890 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2891 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2892 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2896 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2902 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2909 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2912 debconf-mergetemplate.
2913 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2914 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2918 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2921 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2922 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2923 dh_install, which ...
2924 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2925 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2926 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2927 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2928 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2929 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2930 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2931 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2932 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2933 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2934 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2935 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2936 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2937 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2938 other minor changes.
2939 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2940 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2941 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2942 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2943 course there's -X ..)
2944 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2945 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2946 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2948 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2949 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2950 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2951 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2952 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2957 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2963 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2966 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2970 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2976 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2982 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2988 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2994 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2997 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2998 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2999 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3000 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3002 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3003 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3007 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3013 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3016 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3020 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3023 upset. Closes: #131322
3025 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3027 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3030 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
3031 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3032 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3033 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3034 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3035 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3036 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3037 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3038 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3039 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3040 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3041 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3042 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3043 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3044 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3046 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3050 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3053 - Better indenting of generated code.
3054 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3058 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3062 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3063 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3064 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3065 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3066 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3067 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3068 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3072 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3075 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3079 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3082 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3083 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3084 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3085 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3086 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3087 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3088 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3089 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3090 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3091 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3092 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3093 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3094 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3095 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3096 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3101 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3107 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3110 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3111 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3115 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3118 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3119 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3123 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3129 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3132 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3133 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3134 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3135 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3136 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3141 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3147 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3150 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3154 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3157 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3162 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3168 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3171 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3175 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3181 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3185 Also some indentation fixes.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3189 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3192 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3193 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3194 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3195 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3196 Closes: #106514, #85520
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3200 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3206 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3212 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3218 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3224 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3230 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3233 change it in debhelper v4..
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3237 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3243 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3246 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3250 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3253 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3257 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3263 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3266 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3267 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3268 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3269 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3270 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3271 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3272 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3273 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3274 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3275 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3276 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3277 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3281 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3284 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3288 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3295 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3298 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3299 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3300 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3301 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3302 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3303 program those options go to. So, for example,
3304 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3305 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3306 something complex. Closes: #89311
3307 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3311 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3314 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3315 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3316 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3320 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3323 through loop. Closes: #98598
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3327 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * Missing semi-colon.
3330 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3331 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3335 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3338 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3339 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3340 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3344 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3347 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3348 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3352 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3355 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3359 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3362 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3363 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3367 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3370 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3371 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3372 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3376 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3379 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3380 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3381 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3385 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3388 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3392 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3398 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3404 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3410 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3416 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3419 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3423 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3426 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3427 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3428 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3429 followed. Closes: #85483
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3433 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3435 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3436 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3437 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3441 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3444 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3445 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3446 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3447 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3448 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3449 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3450 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3451 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3452 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3453 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3454 Closes: #88464, #77743
3455 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3456 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3457 us to deal with that gracefully.
3458 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3460 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3461 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3462 a while, Closes: #51225
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3466 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3472 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3475 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3479 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3483 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3488 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3491 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3492 don't make packlist files.
3493 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3494 debhelper coding standards.
3495 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3496 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3500 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3503 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3507 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3510 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3511 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3512 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3513 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3514 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3515 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3516 but is mildly deprecated.
3517 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3518 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3519 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3520 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3521 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3522 switching to statoverrides..
3523 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3524 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3525 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3526 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3527 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3528 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3530 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3531 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3532 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3533 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3534 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3535 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3536 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3537 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3538 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3540 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3541 variable names, pod man pages).
3542 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3543 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3544 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3545 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3546 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3547 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3548 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3552 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3558 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3565 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3568 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3572 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3574 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3575 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3576 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3580 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3582 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3583 they were previously ignored.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3587 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3589 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3590 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3594 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3596 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3597 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3598 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3602 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3604 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3608 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3610 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3611 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3615 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3617 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3618 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3619 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3620 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3621 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3622 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3623 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3624 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3625 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3626 it is an obsolete program.
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3630 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3632 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3636 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3640 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3642 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3646 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3648 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3650 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3652 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3656 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3662 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * typo: Closes, #78567
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3668 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3674 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3680 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3683 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3684 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3685 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3686 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3687 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3691 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3694 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3699 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3702 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3703 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3704 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3705 backwards-compatability.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3709 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3712 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3713 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3714 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3715 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3716 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3717 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3719 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3720 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3721 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3723 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3725 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3726 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3727 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3728 should now be raised to severity important..
3729 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3730 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3734 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3737 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3742 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3748 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3754 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3760 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3767 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3770 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3771 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3772 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3773 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3777 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3783 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3786 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3787 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3788 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3789 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3790 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3791 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3796 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3799 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3803 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3809 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3812 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3817 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3820 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3821 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3822 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3823 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3827 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3831 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3834 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3837 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3838 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3841 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3843 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3844 the TODO entry about it.
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3848 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3855 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3858 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3859 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3863 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3866 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3867 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3868 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3869 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3873 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3879 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3886 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3889 (this appears to be logal).
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3893 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3896 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3897 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3898 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3899 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3903 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3909 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3912 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3913 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3914 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3915 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3919 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3925 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3928 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3932 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3939 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3942 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3943 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3944 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3949 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3956 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3962 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3965 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3966 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3967 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3968 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3969 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3970 notice until v2 is complete.
3971 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3972 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3973 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3974 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3975 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3976 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3978 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3979 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3980 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3981 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3985 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3991 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4001 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4005 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4012 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4015 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4016 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4017 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4018 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4023 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4026 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4027 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4028 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4033 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4036 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4037 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4041 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4044 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4048 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4051 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4055 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4065 depend on the build and install targets.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4069 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4072 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4076 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4083 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4089 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4095 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4098 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4099 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4100 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4101 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4102 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4103 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4105 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4106 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4107 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4108 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4109 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4110 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4111 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4115 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4121 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4127 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4130 right place. Closes: #55065
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4134 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4141 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4144 * Copyright date updates.
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4148 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4151 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4156 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4162 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4169 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4175 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4181 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4187 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4190 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4191 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4192 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4193 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4194 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4195 bits until all files have been registered.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4199 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * dh_installmanpages:
4202 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4203 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4204 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4205 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4206 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4207 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4208 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4209 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4210 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4211 otherwise change the result at all.
4213 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4214 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4215 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4216 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4217 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4222 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4228 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4231 act on files that don't exist.
4232 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4233 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4234 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4236 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4237 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4238 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4239 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4243 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4249 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4255 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4258 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4262 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4265 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4267 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4268 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4269 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4273 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4276 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4277 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4278 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4279 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4280 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4281 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4282 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4284 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4286 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4290 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4297 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4309 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4312 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4316 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4322 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4328 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4331 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4332 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4333 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4334 I made some changes, though:
4335 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4336 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4337 that is a clear violation of policy.
4338 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4339 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4340 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4341 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4342 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4343 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4344 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4345 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4346 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4348 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4352 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4358 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4361 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4365 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4368 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4369 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4374 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4380 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4387 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4390 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4391 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4392 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4393 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4394 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4395 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4396 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4400 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4406 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4410 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4411 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4415 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4421 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4424 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4428 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4431 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4432 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4436 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4438 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4443 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4445 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4447 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4451 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4454 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4455 for the dependancies to be generated.
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4459 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4462 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4466 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4469 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4470 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4471 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4476 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4479 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4480 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4484 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4490 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4496 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4499 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4503 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4509 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4512 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4513 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4514 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4515 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4516 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4517 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4518 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4519 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4520 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4521 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4522 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4523 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4527 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4530 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4531 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4533 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4534 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4535 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4536 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4537 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4538 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4540 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4541 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4545 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4548 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4552 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4559 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4562 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4567 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4570 for building debhelper.
4571 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4575 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4582 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4585 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4589 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4592 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4593 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4594 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4595 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4596 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4597 it's always available.
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4601 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4604 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4605 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4606 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4610 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4613 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4614 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4618 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4624 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4627 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4631 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4637 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4640 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4641 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4642 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4649 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4654 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4657 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4658 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4660 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4661 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4665 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4671 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4677 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4680 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4684 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4687 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4688 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4690 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4694 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4697 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4698 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4699 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4703 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4706 things if CDPATH is set.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4710 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4716 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4719 seems to make sense for the transition.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4723 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4726 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4731 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4734 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4735 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4742 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4746 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4749 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4750 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4751 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4752 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4756 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4762 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4765 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4766 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4767 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4768 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4769 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4770 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4771 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4772 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4773 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4774 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4779 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4782 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4783 * README: mention doc/v2
4784 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4785 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4789 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4791 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4792 be using this script RSN.
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4796 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4799 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4800 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4801 more than 1 init script.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4805 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4808 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4812 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * Changed perl version detection.
4815 * Changed call to find.
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4819 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4822 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4824 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4829 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * Really include dh_installpam.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4835 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4838 * Wrote man page for same.
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4842 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4845 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4846 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4851 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4858 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4861 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4862 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4863 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4864 x bit was being set!
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4868 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4871 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4872 well. (Closes: 38900)
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4876 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4879 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4880 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4884 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4890 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4897 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4903 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4906 help from Julian Gilbey.
4907 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4908 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4909 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4910 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4911 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4912 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4913 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4918 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4924 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4931 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4937 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4943 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4946 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4950 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4953 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4957 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4960 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4964 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4970 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4973 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4977 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4983 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4989 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4992 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4993 may be deleted. (#35845)
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4997 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * Various man page enhancements.
5000 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5005 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5008 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5009 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5013 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5016 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5017 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5018 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5020 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5021 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5026 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5032 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * Another very minor typo fix.
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5038 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * Very minor typo fix.
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5044 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5047 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5048 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5052 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5058 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5061 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5062 variables properly (#34850).
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5066 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5072 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5075 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5076 (automatically generated by build process).
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5080 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5082 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5086 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5089 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5090 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5092 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5096 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5099 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5103 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * README: minor typo fix.
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5109 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5112 leave it at that. :-)
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5116 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5122 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5128 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5131 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5132 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5133 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5137 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5140 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5144 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5147 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5151 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5154 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5155 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5156 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5157 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5161 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5164 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5165 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5166 Craig Small for spotting this.
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5170 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5173 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5174 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5178 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5184 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5187 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5191 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5193 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5194 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5195 working on the last version of debhelper.
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5199 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5202 being made. (#23255)
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5206 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5212 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5215 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5219 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5222 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5223 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5224 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5225 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5229 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5232 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5233 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5234 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5235 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5237 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5238 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5240 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5245 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5251 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5257 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5260 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5261 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5262 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5263 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5264 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5265 suidregister actually supports it.
5266 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5267 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5271 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5278 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5281 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5282 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5283 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5284 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5285 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5286 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5287 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5291 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5293 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5294 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5298 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5301 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5302 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5303 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5304 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5308 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5311 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5313 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5314 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5315 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5316 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5317 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5318 effect, either. (#30118)
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5322 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5328 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5331 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5332 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5336 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5342 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5345 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5346 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5347 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5348 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5352 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5355 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5356 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5360 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5366 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5369 packages, painlessly.
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5373 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5379 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5385 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5391 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * The perl conversion is complete.
5395 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5397 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5398 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5399 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5404 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5407 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5408 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5409 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5413 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5416 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5418 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5420 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5421 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5425 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5428 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5429 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5433 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5439 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5442 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5443 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5444 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5445 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5446 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5450 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5453 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5454 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5455 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5456 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5460 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5462 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5463 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5467 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5470 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5471 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5472 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5473 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5474 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5475 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5476 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5477 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5481 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5487 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5490 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5491 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5492 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5497 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5500 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5504 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5507 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5511 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5514 sections of shared libraries.
5515 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5516 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5517 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5518 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5519 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5520 things you don't want them to.
5521 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5522 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5526 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5529 shared libraries. (#26414)
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5533 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5535 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5536 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5537 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5538 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5542 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5546 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5548 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5549 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5550 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5551 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5552 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5556 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5559 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5563 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5566 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5567 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5572 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5575 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5579 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5582 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5583 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5584 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5585 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5586 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5588 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5589 remove debian/files properly.
5590 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5591 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5592 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5593 * Removed bogus menu file.
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5597 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5600 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5604 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5607 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5608 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5609 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5610 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5611 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5612 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5616 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5619 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5620 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5621 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5622 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5626 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5633 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5636 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5637 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5639 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5640 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5641 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5642 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5643 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5644 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5648 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5651 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5652 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5653 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5654 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5655 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5656 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5657 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5658 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5659 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5660 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5661 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5662 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5663 passed any switches.
5664 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5668 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5670 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5671 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5672 at all for a long while.
5673 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5674 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5675 large chunks in the process.
5676 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5677 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5678 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5683 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5686 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5688 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5693 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5696 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5697 that don't always have the same files in them.
5698 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5699 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5700 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5704 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5706 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5708 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5709 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5710 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5711 updating 27 man pages.
5712 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5713 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5714 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5715 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5716 programs act on. (#25247)
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5720 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5724 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5725 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5726 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5727 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5728 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5729 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5734 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5741 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5748 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5751 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5755 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5761 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5764 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5765 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5766 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5767 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5768 package by accident.
5769 * Is version 1.0 next?
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5773 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5776 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5777 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5781 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5784 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5785 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5786 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5787 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5788 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5790 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5795 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5797 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5798 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5799 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5803 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5806 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5810 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5813 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5814 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5819 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5825 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5828 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5829 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5834 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5840 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5843 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5844 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5845 past week. Thanks, guys!
5847 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5848 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5849 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5850 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5851 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5852 would do in the same situation.
5853 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5854 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5856 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5858 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5859 permissions changed.
5860 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5861 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5862 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5863 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5864 files are treated identically.
5865 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5866 * Minor man page fixes.
5867 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5868 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5869 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5873 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5876 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5877 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5878 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5879 use -X multiple times, too.
5880 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5881 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5885 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5888 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5889 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5893 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5896 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5900 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5902 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5903 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5904 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5905 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5906 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5907 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5908 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5909 shape if you're starting a new package.
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5913 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5916 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5920 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5923 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5924 because of missing symlinks.
5926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5928 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5930 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5934 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5936 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5937 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5938 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5939 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5940 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5941 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5943 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5944 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5948 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5950 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5951 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5952 to be changed after the fact :-)
5953 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5957 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5959 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5960 no version string after the -V.
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5964 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5966 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5967 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5972 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5975 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5979 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5982 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5983 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5984 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5985 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5986 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5987 I always welcome corrections!
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5991 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5997 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6000 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6001 * Documented this new switch.
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6005 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6008 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6009 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6010 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6011 no packages use the old behavior.
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6015 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6018 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6019 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6023 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6026 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6030 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6032 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6036 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6039 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6043 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6045 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6046 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6047 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6048 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6052 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6058 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6061 into the source package by accident.
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6065 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6067 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6068 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6069 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6070 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6071 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6072 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6073 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6078 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6080 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6082 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6083 inspired to implement some of it.
6084 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6088 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6091 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6095 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6098 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6099 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6103 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6105 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6106 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6107 have done.) (#17598)
6109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6111 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6113 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6117 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6123 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6125 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6126 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6130 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6132 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6133 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6134 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6138 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6140 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6141 argument processor in perl.
6142 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6143 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6144 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6145 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6149 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6151 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6152 type directories. (#16933)
6153 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6154 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6155 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6156 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6157 are supported. (#16935)
6158 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6163 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6165 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6166 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6170 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6172 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6174 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6175 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6176 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6177 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6178 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6179 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6183 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6185 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6186 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6187 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6189 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6190 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6191 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6192 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6193 a given package, or -i or -a.
6194 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6195 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6196 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6197 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6198 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6199 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6200 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6201 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6202 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6204 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6205 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6206 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6210 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6212 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6213 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6214 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6219 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6221 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6222 does not have a section.
6224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6226 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6228 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6229 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6230 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6231 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6235 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6237 * Fixed typo #16215.
6239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6241 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6243 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6244 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6245 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6246 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6247 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6248 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6253 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6255 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6256 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6257 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6258 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6263 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6265 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6269 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6271 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6275 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6277 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6278 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6279 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6280 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6281 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6282 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6283 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6287 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6289 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6293 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6296 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6300 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6302 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6303 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6304 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6305 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6309 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6311 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6312 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6316 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6318 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6322 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6324 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6325 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6329 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6331 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6332 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6336 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6338 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6342 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6344 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6345 postinst, postrm, etc.
6347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6349 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6351 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6355 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6357 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6358 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6359 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6360 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6361 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6362 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6366 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6368 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6369 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6370 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6374 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6376 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6377 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6381 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6383 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6384 installing package files into.
6385 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6390 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6392 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6394 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6398 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6400 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6404 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6406 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6407 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6411 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6414 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6415 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6416 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6417 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6421 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6423 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6424 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6425 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6426 multiple binary packages.
6427 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6428 should rebuild them with this version.
6429 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6433 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6435 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6436 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6440 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6442 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6443 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6447 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6449 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6450 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6451 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6452 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6453 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6454 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6455 debian/README.debian.
6456 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6457 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6458 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6459 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6460 in a few situations.)
6462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6464 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6466 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6470 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6472 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6476 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6478 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6479 * Fixed several man pages.
6481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6483 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6485 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6486 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6487 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6491 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6493 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6494 is ready for general use.
6495 * Added man pages for all commands.
6496 * Multiple binary package support.
6497 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6498 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6499 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6501 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6502 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6503 auto-installed as parameters.
6504 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6506 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6509 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6510 the package build directory it is to act on.
6511 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6512 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6513 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6517 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6519 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6520 ready to replace debstd.
6522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400