1 debhelper (7.0.51) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh: Man page typo. Closes: #517549, #517550
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:21:33 -0500
7 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
9 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
10 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
12 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
13 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
14 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
15 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
16 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
18 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
20 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
21 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
22 rules (see bug #509756).
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
26 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
32 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
33 * Typo. Closes: #493062
34 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
35 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
39 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
42 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
43 empty files. Closes: #490937
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
47 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
53 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
60 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
63 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
64 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
65 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
66 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
71 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
73 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
74 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
75 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
76 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
80 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
83 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
84 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
85 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
86 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
87 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
91 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
98 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
100 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
101 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
102 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
103 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
104 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
105 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
106 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
107 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
108 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
109 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
113 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
116 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
117 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
118 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
119 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
121 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
122 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
123 breaking backwards compatability.
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
127 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
130 message in perl 5.10.
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
134 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
140 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Convert copyright file to new format.
143 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
147 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
150 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
154 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
157 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
158 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
159 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
160 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
161 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
162 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
163 logging by dh_listpackages.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
167 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
170 run and there are no packages of that type.
171 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
172 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
173 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
174 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
176 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
177 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
181 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
183 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
184 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
185 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
189 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
192 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
193 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
195 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
196 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
197 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
198 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
199 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
200 planned but not yet implemented.)
201 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
202 if the Makefile has such a target.
203 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
204 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
205 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
206 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
207 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
208 but not yet implemented.)
209 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
210 recommended default, especially when using dh.
211 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
212 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
213 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
215 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
217 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
218 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
220 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
221 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
222 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
227 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
229 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
230 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
231 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
235 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
237 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
238 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
239 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
243 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
249 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
255 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
258 just those installed by the program.
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
262 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
265 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
266 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
270 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
273 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
274 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
275 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
276 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
280 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
283 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
284 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
288 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
291 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
292 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
296 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
299 with policy. Closes: #461392
300 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
301 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
302 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
303 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
304 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
308 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
311 Closes: #460340, #460351
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
315 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
318 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
319 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
320 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
321 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
325 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
328 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
329 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
330 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
331 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
332 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
333 package build directory won't work.
334 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
335 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
336 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
337 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
338 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
339 mode. Closes: #459426
340 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
345 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
347 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
348 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
352 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
356 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
357 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
358 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
359 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
360 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
361 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
365 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
368 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
369 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
370 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
371 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
375 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
378 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
379 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
380 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
381 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
382 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
386 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
389 debian/package.triggers files.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
393 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
396 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
400 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
403 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
404 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
405 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
406 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
411 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
414 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
418 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
421 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
422 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
424 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
429 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
433 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
434 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
435 * Typo. Closes: #441272
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
439 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
441 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
446 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
453 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
456 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
458 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
459 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
460 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
462 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
463 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
464 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
468 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
471 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
472 * Update urls to web page.
473 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
475 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
476 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
480 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
483 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
484 - typo in alternatives call
485 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
487 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
488 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
492 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
495 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
500 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
506 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
512 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
514 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
515 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
517 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
518 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
519 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
520 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
521 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
522 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
523 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
524 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
525 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
526 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
527 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
531 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
533 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
534 package install. Closes: #415717
535 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
536 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
537 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
538 script and then remove the python files.
539 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
540 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
541 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
542 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
543 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
544 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
545 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
546 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
547 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
548 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
549 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
550 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
551 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
555 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Correct typo in french translation
561 * Typo. Closes: #400571
562 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
564 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
566 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
567 Closes: #406921, #381940
568 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
570 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
571 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
572 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
573 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
574 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
575 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
576 specified). Closes: #381851
577 * Misc minor changes.
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
581 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
588 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
589 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
593 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
599 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
600 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
603 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
604 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
606 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
607 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
608 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
609 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
613 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
616 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
619 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
623 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
629 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
635 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
636 a difficult situation.
637 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
638 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
639 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
640 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
641 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
642 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
643 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
644 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
645 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
646 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
650 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Non-maintainer upload.
653 * Update of dh_python
654 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
655 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
657 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
658 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
659 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
660 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
661 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
663 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
665 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Non-maintainer upload.
668 * Update of dh_python
669 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
670 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
671 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
672 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
673 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
674 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
675 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
676 specific python version. Closes: #373853
677 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
678 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
680 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
681 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
682 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
683 the not too-distant future).
684 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
685 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
686 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
687 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
688 thus made the build fail.
690 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
692 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Non-maintainer upload.
695 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
697 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
699 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
702 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
703 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
704 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
705 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
706 package. Closes: #301424
707 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
708 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
709 fonts). Closes: #372686
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
713 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
719 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
720 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
721 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
722 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
723 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
724 above, but already depends on that.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
728 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
731 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
732 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
733 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
734 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
735 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
739 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
745 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
751 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
752 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
756 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
759 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
763 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
767 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
768 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
769 new version (0.24.1).
770 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
771 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
774 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
775 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
776 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
777 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
778 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
779 new directory on their own.
780 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
781 * Fix broken directory removal code.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
785 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
788 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
789 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
790 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
791 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
795 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
798 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
799 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
800 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
801 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
802 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
806 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
812 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Typo. Closes: #358904
816 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
817 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
821 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
822 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
826 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
828 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
829 || exit 0 instead of the intended
831 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
832 ignored. Closes: #337664
834 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
839 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
845 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
850 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
851 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
852 the dh_installdebconf manpage
853 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
854 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
855 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
856 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
860 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
862 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
863 version. Closes: #350607
864 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
865 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
866 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
867 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
871 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
873 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
874 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
875 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
876 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
880 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
887 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
889 * Minor bug fix from last release.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
893 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
896 language guessing. Closes: #193221
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
900 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
903 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
904 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
905 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
906 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
907 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
908 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
912 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
915 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
916 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
921 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
924 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
928 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
931 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
935 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
938 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
939 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
940 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
941 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
942 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
943 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
947 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
950 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
951 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
952 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
953 link. Closes: #346405
954 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
957 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
958 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
959 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
960 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
961 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
962 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
966 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
973 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
975 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
979 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
982 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
986 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
989 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
994 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
998 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
999 installed. Closes: #342033
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1003 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1006 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1007 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1008 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1013 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1019 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1025 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1029 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1030 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1031 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1035 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1038 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1043 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1050 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1056 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1059 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1060 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1061 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1062 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1063 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1064 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1065 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1067 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1071 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1074 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1075 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1079 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1082 in standard man dirs.
1083 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1087 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1093 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1096 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1101 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1108 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1115 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1118 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1119 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1123 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1126 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1127 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1128 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1130 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1132 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1138 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1144 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1147 mode. Closes: #324161
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1151 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1154 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1155 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1156 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1157 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1162 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1165 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1166 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1167 is necesary for sanity.
1168 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1169 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1174 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1176 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1177 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1181 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1184 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1188 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1194 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1197 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1198 released, so use at your own risk.
1199 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1200 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1202 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1203 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1204 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1205 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1206 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1207 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1208 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1209 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1210 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1211 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1212 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1213 including twice per config file line now..
1214 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1215 and simplfy the rules file.
1216 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1217 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1218 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1220 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1221 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1225 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1228 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1232 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1235 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1239 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1242 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1246 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1249 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1250 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1251 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1252 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1253 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1254 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1258 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1261 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1262 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1263 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1268 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1271 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1272 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1277 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1280 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1281 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1282 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1287 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1290 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1291 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1292 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1296 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1302 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1309 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1312 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1313 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1314 unknown. Closes: #282924
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1318 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1325 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * Spanish man page updates.
1328 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1333 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1339 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1342 * dh_desktop: reindent
1343 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1344 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1348 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1354 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1356 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1360 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1362 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1366 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1369 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1370 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1374 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1380 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1386 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1393 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1396 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1400 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1403 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1404 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1405 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1406 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1407 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1408 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1410 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1411 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1412 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1413 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1414 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1415 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1416 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1417 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1418 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1419 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1420 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1421 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1422 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1423 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1424 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1425 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1429 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1436 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1439 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1443 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1446 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1450 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1453 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1457 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1460 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1464 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1470 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1476 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1482 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1485 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1486 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1487 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1491 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1494 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1498 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1501 but occasionally right and necessary.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1505 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1508 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1509 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1510 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1511 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1512 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1516 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1519 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1521 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1522 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1523 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1524 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1525 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1526 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1527 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1528 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1529 postinst scripts for udebs.
1530 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1534 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1537 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1539 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1540 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1544 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1550 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1557 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1564 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1567 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1571 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1574 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1578 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1581 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1584 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1585 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1589 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1595 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1598 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1602 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1605 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1606 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1607 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1609 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1611 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1612 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1613 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1617 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1620 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1625 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1628 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1629 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1630 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1635 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1641 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1647 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1650 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1651 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1652 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1653 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1654 associated -dbg packages.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1658 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1661 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1665 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1668 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1672 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1675 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1679 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1682 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1687 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1690 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1694 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1697 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1702 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1705 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1709 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1713 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1714 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1715 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1716 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1717 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1718 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1719 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1720 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1721 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1722 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1726 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1729 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1734 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1737 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1738 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1742 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1745 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1746 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1751 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1754 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1758 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1761 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1765 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1768 out section number. Closes: #204731
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1772 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1779 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1785 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1791 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1794 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1795 removal. Closes: #204286
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1799 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1802 renaming. Closes: #203548
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1806 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1809 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1810 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1814 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1820 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1826 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1832 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1835 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1836 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1837 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1841 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1844 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1845 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1849 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1855 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1862 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1865 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1870 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1873 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1877 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1880 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1882 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1883 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1887 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1890 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1895 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1898 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1902 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1908 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1910 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1914 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1917 it break hard links (see #188663).
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1921 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1924 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1928 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1934 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1938 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1939 debconf-mergetemplates
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1943 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1946 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1950 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1953 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1957 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1960 * Update debhelper(1).
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1964 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1967 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1968 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1969 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1970 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1971 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1975 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1978 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1979 the shell. Closes: #178524
1980 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1984 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1987 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1991 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1994 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1998 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2001 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2002 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2003 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2004 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2009 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2012 files from installation.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2016 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2019 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2020 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2024 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2027 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2031 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2034 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2038 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2044 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2050 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2054 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2055 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2057 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2061 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2064 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2065 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2066 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2067 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2071 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2074 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2078 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2081 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2082 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2086 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2090 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2095 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2101 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2105 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2106 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2107 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2112 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2115 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2116 practice. Closes: #163303
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2120 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2126 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2133 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2136 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2138 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2139 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2140 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2141 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2142 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2146 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2149 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2154 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2160 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2170 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2181 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2187 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2193 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2200 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2203 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2204 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2205 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2206 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2211 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2217 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2224 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2227 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2228 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2235 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2236 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2237 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2238 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2239 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2243 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2246 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2248 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2253 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2256 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2263 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2264 right thing. Closes: #150644
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2268 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * Stupid, evil typo.
2271 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2282 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2285 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2286 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2291 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2297 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2300 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2304 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2307 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2308 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2313 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2316 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2320 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2326 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2329 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2330 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2340 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Removing perl warning message.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2346 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2349 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2350 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2351 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2352 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2353 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2354 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2355 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2356 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2360 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2373 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2376 debconf-mergetemplate.
2377 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2378 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2382 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2385 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2386 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2387 dh_install, which ...
2388 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2389 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2390 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2391 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2392 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2393 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2394 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2395 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2396 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2397 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2398 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2399 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2400 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2401 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2402 other minor changes.
2403 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2404 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2405 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2406 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2407 course there's -X ..)
2408 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2409 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2410 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2412 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2413 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2414 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2415 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2416 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2421 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2427 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2430 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2434 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2440 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2446 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2452 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2458 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2461 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2462 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2463 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2464 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2466 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2467 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2471 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2477 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2480 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2484 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2487 upset. Closes: #131322
2489 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2491 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2494 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2495 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2496 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2497 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2498 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2499 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2500 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2501 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2502 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2503 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2504 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2505 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2506 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2507 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2508 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2510 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2514 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2517 - Better indenting of generated code.
2518 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2522 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2526 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2527 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2528 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2529 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2530 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2531 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2532 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2536 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2539 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2543 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2546 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2547 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2548 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2549 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2550 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2551 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2552 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2553 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2554 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2555 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2556 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2557 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2558 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2559 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2560 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2565 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2571 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2574 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2575 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2579 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2582 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2583 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2587 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2593 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2596 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2597 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2598 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2599 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2600 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2605 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2611 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2614 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2618 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2621 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2626 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2632 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2635 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2639 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2645 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2649 Also some indentation fixes.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2653 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2656 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2657 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2658 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2659 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2660 Closes: #106514, #85520
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2664 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2670 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2676 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2682 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2688 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2694 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2697 change it in debhelper v4..
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2701 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2707 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2710 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2714 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2717 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2721 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2727 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2730 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2731 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2732 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2733 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2734 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2735 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2736 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2737 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2738 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2739 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2740 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2741 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2745 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2748 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2752 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2759 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2762 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2763 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2764 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2765 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2766 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2767 program those options go to. So, for example,
2768 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2769 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2770 something complex. Closes: #89311
2771 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2775 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2778 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2779 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2780 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2784 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2787 through loop. Closes: #98598
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2791 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Missing semi-colon.
2794 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2795 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2799 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2802 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2803 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2804 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2808 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2811 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2812 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2816 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2819 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2823 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2826 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2827 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2831 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2834 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2835 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2836 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2840 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2843 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2844 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2845 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2849 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2852 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2856 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2862 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2868 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2874 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2880 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2883 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2887 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2890 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2891 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2892 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2893 followed. Closes: #85483
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2897 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2899 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2900 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2901 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2905 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2908 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2909 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2910 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2911 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2912 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2913 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2914 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2915 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2916 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2917 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2918 Closes: #88464, #77743
2919 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2920 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2921 us to deal with that gracefully.
2922 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2924 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2925 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2926 a while, Closes: #51225
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2930 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2936 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2939 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2943 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2947 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2952 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2955 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2956 don't make packlist files.
2957 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2958 debhelper coding standards.
2959 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2960 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2964 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2967 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2971 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2974 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2975 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2976 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2977 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2978 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2979 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2980 but is mildly deprecated.
2981 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2982 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2983 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2984 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2985 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2986 switching to statoverrides..
2987 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2988 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2989 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2990 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2991 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2992 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2994 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2995 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2996 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2997 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2998 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2999 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3000 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3001 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3002 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3004 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3005 variable names, pod man pages).
3006 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3007 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3008 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3009 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3010 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3011 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3012 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3016 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3022 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3029 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3032 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3036 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3038 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3039 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3040 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3044 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3046 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3047 they were previously ignored.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3051 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3053 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3054 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3058 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3060 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3061 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3062 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3066 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3068 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3072 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3074 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3075 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3079 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3081 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3082 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3083 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3084 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3085 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3086 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3087 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3088 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3089 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3090 it is an obsolete program.
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3094 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3096 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3100 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3104 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3106 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3110 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3112 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3114 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3116 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3120 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3126 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * typo: Closes, #78567
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3132 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3138 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3144 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3147 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3148 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3149 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3150 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3151 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3155 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3158 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3163 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3166 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3167 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3168 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3169 backwards-compatability.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3173 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3176 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3177 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3178 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3179 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3180 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3181 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3183 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3184 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3185 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3187 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3189 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3190 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3191 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3192 should now be raised to severity important..
3193 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3194 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3198 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3201 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3206 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3212 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3218 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3224 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3231 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3234 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3235 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3236 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3237 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3241 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3247 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3250 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3251 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3252 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3253 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3254 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3255 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3260 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3263 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3267 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3273 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3276 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3281 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3284 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3285 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3286 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3287 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3291 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3295 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3298 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3301 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3302 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3305 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3307 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3308 the TODO entry about it.
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3312 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3319 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3322 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3323 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3327 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3330 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3331 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3332 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3333 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3337 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3343 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3350 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3353 (this appears to be logal).
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3357 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3360 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3361 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3362 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3363 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3367 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3373 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3376 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3377 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3378 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3379 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3383 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3389 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3392 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3396 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3403 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3406 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3407 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3408 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3413 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3420 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3426 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3429 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3430 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3431 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3432 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3433 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3434 notice until v2 is complete.
3435 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3436 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3437 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3438 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3439 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3440 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3442 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3443 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3444 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3445 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3449 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3455 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3462 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3465 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3469 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3476 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3479 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3480 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3481 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3482 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3487 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3490 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3491 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3492 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3497 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3500 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3501 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3505 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3508 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3512 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3515 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3519 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3526 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3529 depend on the build and install targets.
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3533 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3536 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3540 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3547 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3553 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3559 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3562 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3563 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3564 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3565 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3566 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3567 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3569 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3570 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3571 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3572 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3573 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3574 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3575 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3579 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3585 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3591 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3594 right place. Closes: #55065
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3598 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3605 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3608 * Copyright date updates.
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3612 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3615 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3620 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3626 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3633 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3639 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3645 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3651 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3654 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3655 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3656 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3657 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3658 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3659 bits until all files have been registered.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3663 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * dh_installmanpages:
3666 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3667 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3668 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3669 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3670 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3671 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3672 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3673 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3674 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3675 otherwise change the result at all.
3677 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3678 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3679 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3680 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3681 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3686 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3692 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3695 act on files that don't exist.
3696 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3697 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3698 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3700 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3701 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3702 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3703 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3707 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3713 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3719 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3722 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3726 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3729 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3731 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3732 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3733 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3737 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3740 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3741 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3742 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3743 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3744 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3745 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3746 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3748 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3750 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3754 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3761 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3767 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3773 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3776 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3780 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3786 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3792 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3795 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3796 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3797 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3798 I made some changes, though:
3799 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3800 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3801 that is a clear violation of policy.
3802 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3803 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3804 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3805 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3806 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3807 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3808 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3809 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3810 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3812 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3816 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3822 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3825 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3829 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3832 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3833 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3838 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3844 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3851 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3854 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3855 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3856 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3857 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3858 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3859 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3860 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3864 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3870 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3874 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3875 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3879 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3885 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3888 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3892 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3895 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3896 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3900 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3902 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3907 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3911 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3915 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3918 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3919 for the dependancies to be generated.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3923 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3926 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3930 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3933 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3934 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3935 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3940 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3943 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3944 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3948 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3954 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3960 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3963 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3967 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3973 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3976 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3977 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3978 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3979 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3980 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3981 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3982 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3983 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3984 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3985 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3986 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3987 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3991 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3994 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3995 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3997 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3998 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3999 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4000 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4001 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4002 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4004 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4005 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4009 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4012 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4016 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4023 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4026 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4031 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4034 for building debhelper.
4035 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4039 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4046 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4049 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4053 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4056 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4057 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4058 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4059 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4060 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4061 it's always available.
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4065 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4068 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4069 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4070 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4074 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4077 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4078 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4082 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4088 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4091 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4095 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4101 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4104 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4105 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4106 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4110 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4113 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4118 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4121 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4122 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4124 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4125 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4129 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4135 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4141 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4144 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4148 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4151 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4152 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4154 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4158 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4161 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4162 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4163 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4167 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4170 things if CDPATH is set.
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4174 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4180 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4183 seems to make sense for the transition.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4190 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4195 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4198 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4199 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4203 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4206 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4210 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4213 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4214 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4215 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4216 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4220 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4226 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4229 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4230 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4231 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4232 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4233 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4234 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4235 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4236 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4237 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4238 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4243 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4246 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4247 * README: mention doc/v2
4248 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4249 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4253 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4255 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4256 be using this script RSN.
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4260 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4263 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4264 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4265 more than 1 init script.
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4269 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4272 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4276 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * Changed perl version detection.
4279 * Changed call to find.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4283 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4286 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4288 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4293 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * Really include dh_installpam.
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4299 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4302 * Wrote man page for same.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4306 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4309 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4310 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4315 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4322 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4325 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4326 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4327 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4328 x bit was being set!
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4332 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4335 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4336 well. (Closes: 38900)
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4340 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4343 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4344 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4348 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4354 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4361 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4367 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4370 help from Julian Gilbey.
4371 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4372 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4373 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4374 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4375 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4376 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4377 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4382 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4388 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4395 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4401 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4407 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4410 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4414 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4417 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4421 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4424 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4428 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4434 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4437 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4441 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4447 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4453 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4456 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4457 may be deleted. (#35845)
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4461 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Various man page enhancements.
4464 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4469 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4472 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4473 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4477 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4480 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4481 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4482 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4484 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4485 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4490 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4496 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * Another very minor typo fix.
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4502 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * Very minor typo fix.
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4508 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4511 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4512 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4516 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4522 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4525 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4526 variables properly (#34850).
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4530 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4536 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4539 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4540 (automatically generated by build process).
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4544 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4546 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4550 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4553 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4554 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4556 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4560 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4563 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4567 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * README: minor typo fix.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4573 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4576 leave it at that. :-)
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4580 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4586 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4592 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4595 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4596 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4597 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4601 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4604 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4608 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4611 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4615 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4618 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4619 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4620 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4621 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4625 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4628 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4629 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4630 Craig Small for spotting this.
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4634 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4637 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4638 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4642 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4648 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4650 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4651 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4655 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4657 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4658 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4659 working on the last version of debhelper.
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4663 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4666 being made. (#23255)
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4670 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4676 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4679 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4683 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4686 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4687 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4688 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4689 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4693 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4696 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4697 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4698 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4699 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4701 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4702 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4704 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4709 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4715 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4721 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4724 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4725 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4726 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4727 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4728 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4729 suidregister actually supports it.
4730 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4731 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4735 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4742 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4745 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4746 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4747 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4748 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4749 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4750 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4751 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4755 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4757 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4758 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4762 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4765 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4766 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4767 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4768 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4772 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4775 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4777 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4778 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4779 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4780 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4781 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4782 effect, either. (#30118)
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4786 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4792 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4795 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4796 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4800 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4806 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4809 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4810 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4811 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4812 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4816 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4819 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4820 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4824 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4830 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4833 packages, painlessly.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4837 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4843 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4849 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4855 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * The perl conversion is complete.
4859 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4861 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4862 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4863 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4868 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4871 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4872 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4873 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4877 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4880 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4882 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4884 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4885 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4889 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4892 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4893 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4897 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4903 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4905 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4906 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4907 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4908 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4909 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4910 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4914 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4917 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4918 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4919 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4920 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4924 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4927 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4931 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4934 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4935 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4936 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4937 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4938 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4939 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4940 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4941 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4945 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4951 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4954 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4955 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4956 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4961 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4964 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4968 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4971 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4975 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4978 sections of shared libraries.
4979 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4980 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4981 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4982 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4983 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4984 things you don't want them to.
4985 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4986 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4990 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4993 shared libraries. (#26414)
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4997 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4999 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5000 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5001 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5002 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5006 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5010 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5012 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5013 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5014 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5015 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5016 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5020 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5023 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5027 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5030 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5031 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5036 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5039 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5043 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5046 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5047 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5048 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5049 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5050 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5052 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5053 remove debian/files properly.
5054 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5055 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5056 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5057 * Removed bogus menu file.
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5061 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5064 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5068 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5071 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5072 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5073 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5074 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5075 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5076 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5080 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5083 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5084 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5085 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5086 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5090 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5097 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5100 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5101 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5103 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5104 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5105 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5106 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5107 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5108 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5112 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5115 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5116 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5117 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5118 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5119 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5120 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5121 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5122 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5123 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5124 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5125 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5126 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5127 passed any switches.
5128 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5132 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5135 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5136 at all for a long while.
5137 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5138 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5139 large chunks in the process.
5140 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5141 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5142 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5147 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5150 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5152 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5157 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5160 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5161 that don't always have the same files in them.
5162 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5163 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5164 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5168 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5172 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5173 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5174 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5175 updating 27 man pages.
5176 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5177 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5178 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5179 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5180 programs act on. (#25247)
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5184 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5188 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5189 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5190 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5191 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5192 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5193 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5198 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5205 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5212 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5215 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5219 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5225 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5228 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5229 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5230 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5231 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5232 package by accident.
5233 * Is version 1.0 next?
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5237 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5240 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5241 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5245 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5248 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5249 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5250 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5251 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5252 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5254 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5259 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5262 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5263 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5267 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5270 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5274 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5277 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5278 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5283 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5289 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5292 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5293 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5298 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5304 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5307 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5308 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5309 past week. Thanks, guys!
5311 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5312 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5313 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5314 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5315 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5316 would do in the same situation.
5317 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5318 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5320 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5322 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5323 permissions changed.
5324 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5325 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5326 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5327 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5328 files are treated identically.
5329 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5330 * Minor man page fixes.
5331 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5332 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5333 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5337 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5340 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5341 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5342 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5343 use -X multiple times, too.
5344 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5345 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5349 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5352 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5353 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5357 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5360 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5364 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5367 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5368 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5369 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5370 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5371 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5372 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5373 shape if you're starting a new package.
5375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5377 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5379 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5380 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5384 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5387 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5388 because of missing symlinks.
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5392 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5398 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5400 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5401 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5402 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5403 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5404 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5405 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5407 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5408 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5412 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5414 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5415 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5416 to be changed after the fact :-)
5417 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5421 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5423 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5424 no version string after the -V.
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5428 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5430 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5431 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5436 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5439 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5443 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5446 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5447 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5448 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5449 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5450 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5451 I always welcome corrections!
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5455 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5461 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5464 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5465 * Documented this new switch.
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5469 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5472 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5473 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5474 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5475 no packages use the old behavior.
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5479 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5482 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5483 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5487 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5490 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5494 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5500 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5503 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5507 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5510 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5511 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5512 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5516 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5522 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5525 into the source package by accident.
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5529 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5532 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5533 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5534 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5535 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5536 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5537 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5542 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5546 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5547 inspired to implement some of it.
5548 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5552 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5555 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5559 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5562 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5563 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5567 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5569 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5570 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5571 have done.) (#17598)
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5575 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5581 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5587 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5590 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5594 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5597 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5598 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5602 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5605 argument processor in perl.
5606 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5607 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5608 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5609 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5613 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5616 type directories. (#16933)
5617 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5618 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5619 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5620 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5621 are supported. (#16935)
5622 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5627 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5630 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5634 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5638 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5639 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5640 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5641 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5642 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5643 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5647 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5650 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5651 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5653 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5654 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5655 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5656 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5657 a given package, or -i or -a.
5658 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5659 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5660 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5661 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5662 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5663 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5664 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5665 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5666 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5668 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5669 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5670 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5674 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5677 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5678 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5683 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5686 does not have a section.
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5690 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5693 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5694 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5695 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5699 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * Fixed typo #16215.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5705 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5708 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5709 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5710 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5711 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5712 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5717 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5719 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5720 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5721 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5722 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5727 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5733 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5739 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5742 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5743 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5744 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5745 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5746 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5747 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5751 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5757 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5760 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5764 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5767 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5768 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5769 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5773 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5776 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5780 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5786 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5788 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5789 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5793 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5795 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5796 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5800 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5802 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5806 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5808 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5809 postinst, postrm, etc.
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5813 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5819 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5821 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5822 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5823 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5824 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5825 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5826 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5830 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5833 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5834 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5838 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5841 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5845 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5848 installing package files into.
5849 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5854 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5858 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5862 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5868 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5870 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5871 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5875 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5878 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5879 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5880 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5881 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5885 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5887 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5888 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5889 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5890 multiple binary packages.
5891 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5892 should rebuild them with this version.
5893 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5897 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5900 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5904 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5907 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5911 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5914 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5915 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5916 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5917 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5918 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5919 debian/README.debian.
5920 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5921 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5922 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5923 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5924 in a few situations.)
5926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5928 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5930 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5934 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5936 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5940 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5943 * Fixed several man pages.
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5947 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5950 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5951 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5955 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5958 is ready for general use.
5959 * Added man pages for all commands.
5960 * Multiple binary package support.
5961 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5962 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5963 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5965 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5966 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5967 auto-installed as parameters.
5968 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5970 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5973 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5974 the package build directory it is to act on.
5975 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5976 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5977 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5981 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5983 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5984 ready to replace debstd.
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400