1 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
3 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
4 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
5 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
6 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
8 -- Bernd Zeimetz <bzed@debian.org> Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:34:49 +0200
10 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
12 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
13 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
14 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
18 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
20 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
24 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
26 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
27 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
29 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
30 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
31 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
35 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
37 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
38 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
42 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
48 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
50 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
51 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
52 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
57 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
59 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
63 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
66 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
67 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
68 created by using `python' first during build and install.
70 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
75 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
77 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
81 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
83 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
84 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
88 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
90 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
94 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
96 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
100 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
102 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
103 contributed by Modestas Vainius
104 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
105 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
106 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
107 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
108 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
109 that support it. Closes: #480577
110 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
111 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
112 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
114 - Adds support for cmake.
115 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
116 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
118 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
120 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
121 that use them. The options are:
122 --sourcedir, --destdir
123 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
124 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
125 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
126 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
127 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
131 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
137 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
140 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
141 default. Closes: #537140
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
145 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
148 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
149 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
153 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
156 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
160 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
162 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
163 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
167 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
170 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
172 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
173 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
174 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
178 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
181 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
182 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
183 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
187 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
190 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
191 warning or deprecation message.
192 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
193 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
194 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
195 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
196 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
197 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
198 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
199 Closes: #534639, #357434
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
203 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
209 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
212 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
213 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
214 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
215 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
217 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
218 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
219 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
223 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
229 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
236 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
239 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
243 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
247 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
248 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
250 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
251 file support. Closes: #494914
252 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
256 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
259 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
260 parameters. Closes: #527256
261 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
262 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
263 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
267 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
271 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
272 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
273 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
277 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
280 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
281 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
282 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
286 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
289 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
290 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
292 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
293 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
294 by triggers). Closes: #521181
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
298 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
302 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
306 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
309 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
310 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
311 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
312 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
317 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
323 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
326 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
327 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
328 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
329 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
330 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
332 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
333 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
334 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
335 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
336 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
337 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
341 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
344 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
345 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
346 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
347 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
348 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
350 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
354 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
356 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
360 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
362 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
363 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
364 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
365 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
366 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
367 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
368 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
369 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
370 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
371 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
372 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
376 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
378 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
379 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
381 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
382 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
383 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
384 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
386 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
387 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
391 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
393 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
394 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
395 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
396 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
397 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
398 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
399 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
401 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
402 that uses them. Affected options are:
403 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
404 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
405 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
406 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
407 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
408 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
409 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
410 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
411 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
412 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
413 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
414 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
418 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
425 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
431 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
433 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
434 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
436 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
437 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
438 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
439 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
440 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
442 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
444 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
445 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
446 rules (see bug #509756).
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
450 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
456 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
457 * Typo. Closes: #493062
458 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
459 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
463 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
466 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
467 empty files. Closes: #490937
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
471 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
477 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
484 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
487 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
488 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
489 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
490 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
495 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
497 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
498 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
499 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
500 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
504 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
507 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
508 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
509 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
510 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
511 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
515 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
522 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
524 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
525 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
526 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
527 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
528 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
529 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
530 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
531 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
532 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
533 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
537 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
540 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
541 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
542 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
543 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
545 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
546 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
547 breaking backwards compatability.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
551 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
554 message in perl 5.10.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
558 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
564 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Convert copyright file to new format.
567 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
571 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
574 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
578 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
581 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
582 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
583 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
584 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
585 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
586 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
587 logging by dh_listpackages.
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
591 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
594 run and there are no packages of that type.
595 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
596 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
597 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
598 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
600 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
601 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
605 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
607 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
608 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
609 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
613 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
616 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
617 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
619 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
620 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
621 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
622 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
623 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
624 planned but not yet implemented.)
625 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
626 if the Makefile has such a target.
627 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
628 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
629 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
630 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
631 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
632 but not yet implemented.)
633 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
634 recommended default, especially when using dh.
635 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
636 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
637 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
639 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
641 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
642 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
644 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
645 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
646 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
651 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
654 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
655 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
659 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
661 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
662 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
663 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
667 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
673 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
679 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
682 just those installed by the program.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
686 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
689 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
690 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
694 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
697 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
698 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
699 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
700 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
704 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
707 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
708 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
712 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
715 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
716 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
720 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
723 with policy. Closes: #461392
724 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
725 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
726 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
727 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
728 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
732 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
735 Closes: #460340, #460351
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
739 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
742 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
743 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
744 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
745 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
749 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
752 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
753 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
754 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
755 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
756 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
757 package build directory won't work.
758 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
759 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
760 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
761 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
762 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
763 mode. Closes: #459426
764 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
769 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
772 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
776 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
780 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
781 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
782 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
783 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
784 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
785 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
789 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
792 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
793 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
794 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
795 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
799 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
802 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
803 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
804 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
805 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
806 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
810 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
813 debian/package.triggers files.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
817 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
820 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
824 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
827 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
828 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
829 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
830 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
835 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
838 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
842 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
845 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
846 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
848 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
853 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
857 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
858 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
859 * Typo. Closes: #441272
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
863 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
865 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
870 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
877 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
880 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
882 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
883 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
884 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
886 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
887 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
888 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
892 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
895 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
896 * Update urls to web page.
897 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
899 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
900 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
904 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
907 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
908 - typo in alternatives call
909 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
911 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
912 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
916 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
919 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
924 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
930 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
936 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
939 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
941 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
942 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
943 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
944 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
945 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
946 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
947 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
948 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
949 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
950 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
951 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
955 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
958 package install. Closes: #415717
959 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
960 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
961 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
962 script and then remove the python files.
963 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
964 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
965 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
966 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
967 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
968 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
969 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
970 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
971 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
972 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
973 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
974 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
975 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
979 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Correct typo in french translation
985 * Typo. Closes: #400571
986 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
988 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
990 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
991 Closes: #406921, #381940
992 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
994 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
995 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
996 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
997 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
998 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
999 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1000 specified). Closes: #381851
1001 * Misc minor changes.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1005 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1012 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1013 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1017 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1023 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1024 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1027 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1028 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1030 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1031 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1032 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1033 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1037 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1040 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1043 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1047 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1053 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1059 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1060 a difficult situation.
1061 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1062 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1063 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1064 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1065 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1066 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1067 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1068 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1069 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1070 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1074 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Non-maintainer upload.
1077 * Update of dh_python
1078 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1079 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1081 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1082 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1083 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1084 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1085 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1087 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1089 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Non-maintainer upload.
1092 * Update of dh_python
1093 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1094 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1095 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1096 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1097 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1098 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1099 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1100 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1101 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1102 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1104 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1105 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1106 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1107 the not too-distant future).
1108 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1109 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1110 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1111 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1112 thus made the build fail.
1114 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1116 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Non-maintainer upload.
1119 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1121 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1123 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1126 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1127 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1128 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1129 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1130 package. Closes: #301424
1131 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1132 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1133 fonts). Closes: #372686
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1137 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1143 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1144 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1145 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1146 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1147 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1148 above, but already depends on that.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1152 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1155 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1156 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1157 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1158 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1159 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1163 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1169 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1175 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1176 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1180 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1183 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1187 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1191 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1192 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1193 new version (0.24.1).
1194 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1195 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1198 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1199 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1200 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1201 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1202 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1203 new directory on their own.
1204 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1205 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1209 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1212 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1213 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1214 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1215 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1219 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1222 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1223 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1224 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1225 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1226 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1230 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1236 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1240 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1241 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1245 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1246 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1250 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1252 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1253 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1255 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1256 ignored. Closes: #337664
1258 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1263 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1269 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1274 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1275 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1276 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1277 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1278 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1279 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1280 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1284 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1287 version. Closes: #350607
1288 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1289 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1290 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1291 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1295 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1298 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1299 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1300 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1304 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1311 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1317 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1320 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1324 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1327 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1328 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1329 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1330 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1331 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1332 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1336 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1339 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1340 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1345 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1348 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1352 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1355 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1359 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1362 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1363 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1364 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1365 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1366 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1367 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1371 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1375 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1376 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1377 link. Closes: #346405
1378 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1380 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1381 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1382 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1383 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1384 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1385 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1386 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1390 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1397 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1403 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1406 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1410 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1413 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1418 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1422 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1423 installed. Closes: #342033
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1427 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1430 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1431 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1432 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1437 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1443 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1449 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1453 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1454 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1455 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1459 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1462 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1467 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1474 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1480 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1483 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1484 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1485 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1486 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1487 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1488 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1489 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1491 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1495 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1498 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1499 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1503 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1506 in standard man dirs.
1507 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1511 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1517 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1520 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1525 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1532 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1539 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1542 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1543 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1547 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1550 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1551 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1552 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1554 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1556 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1562 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1568 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1571 mode. Closes: #324161
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1575 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1578 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1579 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1580 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1581 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1586 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1589 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1590 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1591 is necesary for sanity.
1592 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1593 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1598 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1600 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1601 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1605 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1608 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1612 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1618 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1621 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1622 released, so use at your own risk.
1623 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1624 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1626 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1627 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1628 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1629 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1630 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1631 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1632 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1633 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1634 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1635 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1636 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1637 including twice per config file line now..
1638 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1639 and simplfy the rules file.
1640 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1641 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1642 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1644 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1645 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1649 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1652 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1656 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1659 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1663 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1666 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1670 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1673 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1674 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1675 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1676 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1677 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1678 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1682 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1685 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1686 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1687 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1692 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1695 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1696 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1701 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1704 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1705 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1706 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1711 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1714 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1715 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1716 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1720 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1726 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1733 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1736 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1737 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1738 unknown. Closes: #282924
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1742 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1749 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Spanish man page updates.
1752 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1757 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1763 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1766 * dh_desktop: reindent
1767 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1768 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1772 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1778 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1780 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1784 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1786 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1790 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1793 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1794 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1798 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1804 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1810 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1817 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1820 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1824 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1827 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1828 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1829 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1830 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1831 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1832 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1834 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1835 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1836 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1837 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1838 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1839 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1840 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1841 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1842 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1843 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1844 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1845 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1846 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1847 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1848 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1849 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1853 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1860 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1863 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1867 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1870 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1874 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1877 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1881 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1884 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1888 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1894 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1900 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1906 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1909 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1910 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1911 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1915 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1918 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1922 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1925 but occasionally right and necessary.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1929 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1932 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1933 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1934 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1935 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1936 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1940 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1943 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1945 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1946 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1947 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1948 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1949 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1950 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1951 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1952 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1953 postinst scripts for udebs.
1954 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1958 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1961 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1963 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1964 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1968 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1974 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1981 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1988 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1991 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1995 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1998 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2002 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2005 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2008 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2009 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2013 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2019 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2022 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2026 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2029 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2030 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2031 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2033 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2035 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2036 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2037 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2041 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2044 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2049 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2052 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2053 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2054 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2059 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2065 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2071 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2074 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2075 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2076 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2077 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2078 associated -dbg packages.
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2082 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2085 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2089 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2092 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2096 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2099 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2103 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2106 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2111 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2114 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2118 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2121 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2126 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2129 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2133 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2137 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2138 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2139 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2140 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2141 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2142 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2143 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2144 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2145 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2146 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2150 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2153 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2158 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2161 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2162 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2166 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2169 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2170 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2178 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2182 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2185 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2189 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2192 out section number. Closes: #204731
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2196 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2203 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2209 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2215 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2218 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2219 removal. Closes: #204286
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2226 renaming. Closes: #203548
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2230 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2233 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2234 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2238 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2244 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2250 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2256 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2259 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2260 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2261 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2265 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2268 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2269 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2273 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2279 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2286 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2289 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2297 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2304 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2306 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2307 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2311 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2314 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2319 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2322 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2326 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2332 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2334 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2338 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2341 it break hard links (see #188663).
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2345 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2348 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2352 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2358 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2362 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2363 debconf-mergetemplates
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2367 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2370 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2374 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2377 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2381 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2384 * Update debhelper(1).
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2388 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2391 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2392 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2393 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2394 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2395 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2399 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2402 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2403 the shell. Closes: #178524
2404 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2408 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2411 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2415 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2418 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2422 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2425 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2426 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2427 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2428 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2433 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2436 files from installation.
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2440 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2443 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2444 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2448 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2451 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2455 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2458 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2462 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2468 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2474 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2478 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2479 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2481 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2485 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2488 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2489 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2490 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2491 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2495 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2498 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2502 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2505 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2506 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2510 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2514 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2519 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2525 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2529 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2530 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2531 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2536 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2539 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2540 practice. Closes: #163303
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2544 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2550 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2557 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2560 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2562 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2563 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2564 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2565 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2566 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2570 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2573 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2578 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2584 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2591 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2594 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2599 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2605 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2611 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2617 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2624 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2627 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2628 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2629 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2630 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2641 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2648 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2651 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2652 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2656 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2659 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2660 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2661 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2662 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2663 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2667 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2670 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2672 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2677 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2680 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2684 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2687 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2688 right thing. Closes: #150644
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2692 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Stupid, evil typo.
2695 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2699 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2706 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2709 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2710 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2715 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2721 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2724 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2728 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2731 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2732 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2737 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2740 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2744 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2750 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2753 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2754 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2758 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2764 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Removing perl warning message.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2770 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2773 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2774 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2775 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2776 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2777 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2778 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2779 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2780 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2784 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2790 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2797 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2800 debconf-mergetemplate.
2801 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2802 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2806 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2809 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2810 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2811 dh_install, which ...
2812 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2813 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2814 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2815 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2816 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2817 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2818 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2819 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2820 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2821 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2822 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2823 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2824 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2825 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2826 other minor changes.
2827 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2828 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2829 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2830 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2831 course there's -X ..)
2832 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2833 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2834 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2836 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2837 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2838 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2839 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2840 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2845 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2851 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2854 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2858 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2864 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2870 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2876 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2882 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2885 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2886 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2887 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2888 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2890 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2891 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2895 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2901 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2904 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2908 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2911 upset. Closes: #131322
2913 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2915 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2918 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2919 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2920 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2921 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2922 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2923 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2924 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2925 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2926 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2927 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2928 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2929 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2930 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2931 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2932 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2934 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2938 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2941 - Better indenting of generated code.
2942 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2946 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2950 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2951 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2952 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2953 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2954 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2955 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2956 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2960 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2963 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2967 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2970 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2971 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2972 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2973 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2974 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2975 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2976 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2977 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2978 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2979 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2980 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2981 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2982 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2983 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2984 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2989 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2995 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2998 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2999 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3003 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3006 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3007 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3011 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3017 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3020 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3021 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3022 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3023 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3024 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3029 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3035 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3038 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3042 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3045 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3050 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3056 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3059 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3063 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3069 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3073 Also some indentation fixes.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3077 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3080 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3081 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3082 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3083 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3084 Closes: #106514, #85520
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3088 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3094 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3100 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3106 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3112 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3118 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3121 change it in debhelper v4..
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3125 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3131 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3134 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3138 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3141 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3145 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3151 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3154 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3155 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3156 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3157 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3158 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3159 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3160 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3161 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3162 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3163 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3164 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3165 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3169 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3172 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3176 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3183 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3186 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3187 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3188 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3189 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3190 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3191 program those options go to. So, for example,
3192 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3193 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3194 something complex. Closes: #89311
3195 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3199 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3202 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3203 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3204 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3208 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3211 through loop. Closes: #98598
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3215 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Missing semi-colon.
3218 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3219 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3223 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3226 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3227 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3228 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3232 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3235 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3236 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3240 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3243 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3247 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3250 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3251 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3255 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3258 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3259 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3260 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3264 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3267 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3268 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3269 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3273 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3276 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3280 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3286 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3292 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3298 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3304 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3307 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3311 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3314 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3315 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3316 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3317 followed. Closes: #85483
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3321 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3323 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3324 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3325 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3329 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3332 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3333 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3334 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3335 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3336 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3337 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3338 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3339 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3340 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3341 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3342 Closes: #88464, #77743
3343 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3344 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3345 us to deal with that gracefully.
3346 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3348 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3349 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3350 a while, Closes: #51225
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3354 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3360 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3363 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3367 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3371 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3376 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3379 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3380 don't make packlist files.
3381 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3382 debhelper coding standards.
3383 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3384 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3388 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3391 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3395 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3398 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3399 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3400 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3401 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3402 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3403 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3404 but is mildly deprecated.
3405 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3406 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3407 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3408 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3409 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3410 switching to statoverrides..
3411 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3412 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3413 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3414 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3415 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3416 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3418 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3419 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3420 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3421 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3422 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3423 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3424 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3425 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3426 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3428 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3429 variable names, pod man pages).
3430 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3431 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3432 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3433 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3434 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3435 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3436 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3440 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3446 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3453 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3456 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3460 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3462 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3463 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3464 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3468 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3470 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3471 they were previously ignored.
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3475 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3477 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3478 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3482 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3484 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3485 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3486 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3490 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3492 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3496 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3498 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3499 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3503 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3505 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3506 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3507 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3508 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3509 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3510 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3511 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3512 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3513 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3514 it is an obsolete program.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3518 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3520 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3524 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3528 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3530 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3534 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3536 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3538 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3540 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3544 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3550 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * typo: Closes, #78567
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3556 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3562 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3568 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3571 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3572 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3573 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3574 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3575 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3579 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3582 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3587 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3590 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3591 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3592 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3593 backwards-compatability.
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3597 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3600 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3601 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3602 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3603 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3604 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3605 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3607 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3608 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3609 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3611 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3613 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3614 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3615 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3616 should now be raised to severity important..
3617 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3618 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3622 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3625 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3630 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3636 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3642 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3648 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3655 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3658 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3659 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3660 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3661 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3665 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3671 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3674 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3675 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3676 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3677 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3678 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3679 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3684 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3687 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3691 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3697 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3700 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3705 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3708 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3709 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3710 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3711 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3715 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3719 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3722 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3725 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3726 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3729 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3731 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3732 the TODO entry about it.
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3736 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3743 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3746 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3747 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3751 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3754 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3755 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3756 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3757 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3761 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3767 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3774 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3777 (this appears to be logal).
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3781 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3784 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3785 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3786 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3787 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3791 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3797 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3800 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3801 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3802 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3803 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3807 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3813 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3816 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3820 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3827 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3830 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3831 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3832 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3837 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3844 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3850 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3853 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3854 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3855 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3856 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3857 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3858 notice until v2 is complete.
3859 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3860 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3861 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3862 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3863 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3864 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3866 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3867 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3868 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3869 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3873 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3879 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3886 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3889 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3893 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3900 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3903 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3904 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3905 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3906 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3911 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3914 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3915 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3916 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3921 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3924 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3925 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3929 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3932 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3936 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3939 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3943 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3950 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3953 depend on the build and install targets.
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3957 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3960 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3964 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3971 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3977 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3983 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3986 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3987 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3988 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3989 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3990 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3991 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3993 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3994 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3995 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3996 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3997 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3998 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3999 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4003 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4009 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4015 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4018 right place. Closes: #55065
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4022 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4029 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4032 * Copyright date updates.
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4036 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4039 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4044 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4050 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4057 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4063 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4069 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4075 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4078 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4079 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4080 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4081 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4082 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4083 bits until all files have been registered.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4087 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * dh_installmanpages:
4090 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4091 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4092 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4093 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4094 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4095 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4096 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4097 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4098 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4099 otherwise change the result at all.
4101 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4102 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4103 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4104 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4105 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4110 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4116 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4119 act on files that don't exist.
4120 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4121 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4122 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4124 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4125 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4126 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4127 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4131 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4137 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4143 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4146 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4150 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4153 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4155 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4156 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4157 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4161 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4164 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4165 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4166 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4167 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4168 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4169 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4170 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4172 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4174 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4178 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4185 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4191 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4200 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4204 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4210 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4216 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4219 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4220 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4221 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4222 I made some changes, though:
4223 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4224 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4225 that is a clear violation of policy.
4226 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4227 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4228 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4229 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4230 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4231 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4232 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4233 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4234 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4236 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4240 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4246 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4249 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4253 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4256 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4257 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4268 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4275 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4278 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4279 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4280 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4281 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4282 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4283 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4284 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4294 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4298 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4299 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4309 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4312 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4316 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4319 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4320 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4324 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4326 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4331 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4335 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4339 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4342 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4343 for the dependancies to be generated.
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4347 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4350 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4357 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4358 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4359 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4364 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4367 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4368 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4372 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4378 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4384 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4387 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4391 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4397 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4400 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4401 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4402 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4403 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4404 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4405 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4406 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4407 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4408 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4409 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4410 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4411 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4415 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4418 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4419 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4421 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4422 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4423 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4424 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4425 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4426 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4428 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4429 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4436 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4440 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4447 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4450 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4455 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4458 for building debhelper.
4459 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4463 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4470 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4473 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4477 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4480 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4481 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4482 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4483 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4484 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4485 it's always available.
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4489 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4492 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4493 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4494 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4498 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4501 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4502 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4506 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4512 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4515 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4519 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4525 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4528 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4529 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4530 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4537 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4542 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4545 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4546 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4548 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4549 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4553 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4559 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4565 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4568 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4572 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4575 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4576 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4578 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4582 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4585 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4586 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4587 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4591 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4594 things if CDPATH is set.
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4598 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4607 seems to make sense for the transition.
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4611 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4614 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4619 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4622 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4623 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4627 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4630 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4634 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4637 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4638 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4639 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4640 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4644 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4650 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4653 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4654 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4655 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4656 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4657 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4658 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4659 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4660 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4661 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4662 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4667 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4670 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4671 * README: mention doc/v2
4672 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4673 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4677 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4679 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4680 be using this script RSN.
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4684 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4687 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4688 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4689 more than 1 init script.
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4693 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4696 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4700 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * Changed perl version detection.
4703 * Changed call to find.
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4707 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4710 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4712 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4717 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * Really include dh_installpam.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4723 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4726 * Wrote man page for same.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4730 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4733 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4734 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4739 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4746 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4749 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4750 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4751 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4752 x bit was being set!
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4756 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4759 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4760 well. (Closes: 38900)
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4764 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4767 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4768 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4772 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4778 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4785 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4791 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4794 help from Julian Gilbey.
4795 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4796 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4797 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4798 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4799 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4800 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4801 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4806 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4812 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4819 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4825 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4831 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4834 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4838 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4841 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4845 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4848 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4852 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4858 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4861 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4865 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4867 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4871 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4877 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4880 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4881 may be deleted. (#35845)
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4885 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * Various man page enhancements.
4888 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4893 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4896 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4897 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4901 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4904 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4905 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4906 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4908 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4909 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4914 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4920 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * Another very minor typo fix.
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4926 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * Very minor typo fix.
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4932 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4935 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4936 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4940 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4946 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4949 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4950 variables properly (#34850).
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4954 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4960 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4963 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4964 (automatically generated by build process).
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4968 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4970 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4974 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4977 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4978 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4980 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4984 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4987 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4991 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * README: minor typo fix.
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4997 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5000 leave it at that. :-)
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5004 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5010 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5016 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5019 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5020 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5021 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5025 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5028 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5032 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5035 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5039 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5042 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5043 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5044 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5045 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5049 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5052 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5053 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5054 Craig Small for spotting this.
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5058 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5061 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5062 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5066 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5072 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5075 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5079 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5081 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5082 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5083 working on the last version of debhelper.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5087 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5090 being made. (#23255)
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5094 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5100 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5102 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5103 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5107 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5110 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5111 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5112 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5113 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5117 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5120 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5121 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5122 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5123 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5125 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5126 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5128 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5133 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5139 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5145 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5148 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5149 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5150 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5151 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5152 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5153 suidregister actually supports it.
5154 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5155 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5159 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5161 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5166 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5169 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5170 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5171 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5172 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5173 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5174 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5175 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5179 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5181 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5182 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5186 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5189 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5190 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5191 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5192 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5196 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5199 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5201 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5202 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5203 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5204 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5205 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5206 effect, either. (#30118)
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5210 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5216 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5219 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5220 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5224 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5230 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5233 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5234 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5235 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5236 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5240 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5243 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5244 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5248 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5254 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5257 packages, painlessly.
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5261 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5263 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5267 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5269 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5273 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5279 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * The perl conversion is complete.
5283 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5285 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5286 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5287 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5292 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5295 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5296 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5297 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5301 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5304 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5306 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5308 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5309 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5313 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5315 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5316 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5317 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5321 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5327 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5330 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5331 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5332 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5333 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5334 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5338 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5341 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5342 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5343 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5344 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5348 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5351 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5355 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5358 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5359 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5360 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5361 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5362 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5363 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5364 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5365 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5369 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5375 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5378 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5379 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5380 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5385 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5388 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5392 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5395 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5399 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5402 sections of shared libraries.
5403 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5404 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5405 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5406 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5407 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5408 things you don't want them to.
5409 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5410 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5414 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5417 shared libraries. (#26414)
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5421 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5423 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5424 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5425 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5426 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5430 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5434 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5436 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5437 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5438 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5439 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5440 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5444 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5447 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5451 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5454 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5455 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5460 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5462 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5463 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5467 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5470 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5471 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5472 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5473 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5474 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5476 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5477 remove debian/files properly.
5478 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5479 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5480 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5481 * Removed bogus menu file.
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5485 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5488 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5492 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5495 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5496 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5497 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5498 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5499 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5500 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5504 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5507 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5508 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5509 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5510 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5514 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5521 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5523 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5524 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5525 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5527 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5528 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5529 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5530 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5531 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5532 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5536 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5539 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5540 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5541 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5542 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5543 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5544 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5545 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5546 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5547 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5548 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5549 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5550 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5551 passed any switches.
5552 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5556 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5559 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5560 at all for a long while.
5561 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5562 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5563 large chunks in the process.
5564 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5565 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5566 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5571 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5574 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5576 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5581 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5584 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5585 that don't always have the same files in them.
5586 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5587 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5588 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5592 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5596 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5597 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5598 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5599 updating 27 man pages.
5600 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5601 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5602 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5603 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5604 programs act on. (#25247)
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5608 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5612 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5613 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5614 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5615 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5616 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5617 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5622 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5629 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5636 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5639 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5643 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5649 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5652 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5653 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5654 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5655 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5656 package by accident.
5657 * Is version 1.0 next?
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5661 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5664 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5665 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5669 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5672 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5673 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5674 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5675 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5676 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5678 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5683 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5686 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5687 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5691 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5694 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5698 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5701 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5702 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5707 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5713 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5716 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5717 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5722 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5728 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5731 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5732 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5733 past week. Thanks, guys!
5735 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5736 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5737 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5738 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5739 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5740 would do in the same situation.
5741 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5742 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5744 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5746 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5747 permissions changed.
5748 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5749 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5750 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5751 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5752 files are treated identically.
5753 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5754 * Minor man page fixes.
5755 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5756 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5757 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5761 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5764 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5765 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5766 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5767 use -X multiple times, too.
5768 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5769 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5773 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5776 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5777 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5781 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5784 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5788 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5791 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5792 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5793 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5794 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5795 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5796 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5797 shape if you're starting a new package.
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5801 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5803 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5804 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5808 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5810 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5811 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5812 because of missing symlinks.
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5816 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5822 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5824 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5825 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5826 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5827 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5828 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5829 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5831 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5832 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5836 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5838 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5839 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5840 to be changed after the fact :-)
5841 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5845 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5847 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5848 no version string after the -V.
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5852 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5854 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5855 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5860 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5863 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5867 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5870 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5871 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5872 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5873 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5874 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5875 I always welcome corrections!
5877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5879 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5881 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5885 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5888 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5889 * Documented this new switch.
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5893 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5896 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5897 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5898 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5899 no packages use the old behavior.
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5903 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5906 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5907 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5911 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5914 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5918 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5924 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5926 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5927 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5931 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5933 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5934 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5935 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5936 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5940 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5946 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5949 into the source package by accident.
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5953 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5956 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5957 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5958 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5959 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5960 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5961 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5966 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5968 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5970 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5971 inspired to implement some of it.
5972 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5976 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5978 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5979 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5983 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5985 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5986 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5987 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5991 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5994 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5995 have done.) (#17598)
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5999 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6005 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6011 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6014 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6018 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6020 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6021 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6022 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6026 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6029 argument processor in perl.
6030 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6031 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6032 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6033 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6037 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6039 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6040 type directories. (#16933)
6041 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6042 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6043 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6044 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6045 are supported. (#16935)
6046 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6051 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6054 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6058 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6062 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6063 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6064 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6065 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6066 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6067 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6071 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6073 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6074 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6075 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6077 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6078 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6079 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6080 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6081 a given package, or -i or -a.
6082 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6083 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6084 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6085 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6086 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6087 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6088 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6089 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6090 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6092 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6093 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6094 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6098 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6101 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6102 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6107 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6110 does not have a section.
6112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6114 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6116 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6117 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6118 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6119 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6123 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6125 * Fixed typo #16215.
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6129 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6132 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6133 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6134 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6135 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6136 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6141 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6144 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6145 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6146 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6151 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6153 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6157 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6159 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6163 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6165 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6166 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6167 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6168 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6169 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6170 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6171 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6175 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6177 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6181 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6184 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6188 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6190 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6191 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6192 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6193 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6197 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6199 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6200 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6204 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6206 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6210 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6212 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6213 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6217 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6220 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6224 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6226 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6230 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6232 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6233 postinst, postrm, etc.
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6237 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6243 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6245 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6246 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6247 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6248 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6249 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6250 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6254 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6256 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6257 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6258 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6262 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6265 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6269 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6271 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6272 installing package files into.
6273 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6278 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6280 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6282 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6286 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6292 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6294 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6295 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6299 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6301 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6302 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6303 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6304 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6305 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6309 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6311 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6312 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6313 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6314 multiple binary packages.
6315 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6316 should rebuild them with this version.
6317 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6321 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6323 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6324 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6328 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6330 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6331 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6335 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6337 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6338 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6339 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6340 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6341 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6342 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6343 debian/README.debian.
6344 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6345 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6346 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6347 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6348 in a few situations.)
6350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6352 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6354 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6358 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6360 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6364 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6366 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6367 * Fixed several man pages.
6369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6371 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6373 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6374 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6375 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6379 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6381 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6382 is ready for general use.
6383 * Added man pages for all commands.
6384 * Multiple binary package support.
6385 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6386 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6387 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6389 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6390 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6391 auto-installed as parameters.
6392 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6394 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6397 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6398 the package build directory it is to act on.
6399 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6400 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6401 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6405 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6407 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6408 ready to replace debstd.
6410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400