1 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
4 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
6 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
7 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
8 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
12 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
14 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
15 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
16 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
17 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
21 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
24 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
25 warning or deprecation message.
26 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
27 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
28 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
29 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
30 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
31 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
32 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
33 Closes: #534639, #357434
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
37 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
43 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
46 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
47 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
48 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
49 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
51 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
52 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
53 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
57 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
63 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
70 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
73 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
77 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
81 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
82 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
84 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
85 file support. Closes: #494914
86 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
90 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
93 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
94 parameters. Closes: #527256
95 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
96 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
97 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
101 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
105 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
106 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
107 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
111 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
114 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
115 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
116 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
120 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
123 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
124 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
126 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
127 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
128 by triggers). Closes: #521181
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
132 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
136 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
140 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
143 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
144 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
145 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
146 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
151 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
153 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
157 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
160 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
161 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
162 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
163 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
164 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
166 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
167 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
168 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
169 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
170 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
171 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
175 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
178 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
179 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
180 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
181 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
182 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
184 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
188 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
190 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
194 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
196 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
197 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
198 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
199 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
200 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
201 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
202 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
203 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
204 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
205 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
206 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
210 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
212 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
213 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
215 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
216 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
217 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
218 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
220 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
221 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
225 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
227 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
228 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
229 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
230 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
231 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
232 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
233 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
235 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
236 that uses them. Affected options are:
237 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
238 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
239 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
240 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
241 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
242 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
243 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
244 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
245 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
246 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
247 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
248 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
252 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
259 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
265 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
267 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
268 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
270 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
271 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
272 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
273 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
274 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
276 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
278 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
279 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
280 rules (see bug #509756).
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
284 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
290 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
291 * Typo. Closes: #493062
292 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
293 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
297 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
300 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
301 empty files. Closes: #490937
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
305 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
311 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
318 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
321 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
322 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
323 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
324 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
329 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
331 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
332 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
333 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
334 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
338 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
340 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
341 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
342 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
343 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
344 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
345 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
349 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
356 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
358 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
359 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
360 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
361 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
362 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
363 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
364 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
365 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
366 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
367 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
371 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
374 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
375 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
376 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
377 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
379 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
380 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
381 breaking backwards compatability.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
385 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
388 message in perl 5.10.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
392 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
398 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Convert copyright file to new format.
401 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
405 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
408 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
412 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
415 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
416 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
417 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
418 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
419 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
420 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
421 logging by dh_listpackages.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
425 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
428 run and there are no packages of that type.
429 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
430 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
431 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
432 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
434 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
435 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
439 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
441 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
442 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
443 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
447 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
450 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
451 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
453 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
454 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
455 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
456 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
457 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
458 planned but not yet implemented.)
459 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
460 if the Makefile has such a target.
461 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
462 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
463 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
464 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
465 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
466 but not yet implemented.)
467 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
468 recommended default, especially when using dh.
469 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
470 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
471 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
473 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
475 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
476 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
478 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
479 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
480 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
485 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
488 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
489 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
493 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
495 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
496 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
497 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
501 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
507 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
513 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
516 just those installed by the program.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
520 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
523 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
524 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
528 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
531 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
532 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
533 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
534 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
538 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
541 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
542 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
546 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
549 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
550 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
554 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
557 with policy. Closes: #461392
558 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
559 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
560 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
561 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
562 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
566 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
569 Closes: #460340, #460351
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
573 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
575 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
576 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
577 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
578 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
579 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
583 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
586 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
587 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
588 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
589 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
590 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
591 package build directory won't work.
592 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
593 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
594 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
595 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
596 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
597 mode. Closes: #459426
598 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
603 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
606 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
610 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
614 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
615 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
616 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
617 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
618 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
619 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
623 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
626 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
627 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
628 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
629 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
633 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
636 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
637 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
638 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
639 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
640 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
644 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
647 debian/package.triggers files.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
651 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
654 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
658 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
661 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
662 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
663 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
664 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
669 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
672 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
676 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
679 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
680 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
682 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
687 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
691 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
692 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
693 * Typo. Closes: #441272
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
697 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
704 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
711 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
714 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
716 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
717 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
718 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
720 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
721 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
722 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
726 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
729 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
730 * Update urls to web page.
731 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
733 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
734 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
738 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
741 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
742 - typo in alternatives call
743 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
745 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
746 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
750 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
753 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
758 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
764 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
770 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
773 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
775 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
776 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
777 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
778 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
779 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
780 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
781 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
782 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
783 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
784 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
785 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
789 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
792 package install. Closes: #415717
793 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
794 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
795 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
796 script and then remove the python files.
797 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
798 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
799 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
800 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
801 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
802 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
803 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
804 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
805 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
806 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
807 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
808 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
809 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
813 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Correct typo in french translation
819 * Typo. Closes: #400571
820 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
822 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
824 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
825 Closes: #406921, #381940
826 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
828 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
829 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
830 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
831 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
832 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
833 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
834 specified). Closes: #381851
835 * Misc minor changes.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
839 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
846 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
847 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
851 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
857 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
858 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
861 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
862 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
864 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
865 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
866 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
867 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
871 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
874 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
877 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
881 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
883 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
887 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
893 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
894 a difficult situation.
895 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
896 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
897 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
898 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
899 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
900 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
901 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
902 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
903 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
904 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
908 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Non-maintainer upload.
911 * Update of dh_python
912 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
913 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
915 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
916 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
917 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
918 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
919 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
921 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
923 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Non-maintainer upload.
926 * Update of dh_python
927 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
928 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
929 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
930 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
931 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
932 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
933 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
934 specific python version. Closes: #373853
935 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
936 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
938 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
939 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
940 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
941 the not too-distant future).
942 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
943 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
944 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
945 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
946 thus made the build fail.
948 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
950 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Non-maintainer upload.
953 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
955 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
957 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
960 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
961 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
962 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
963 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
964 package. Closes: #301424
965 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
966 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
967 fonts). Closes: #372686
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
971 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
977 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
978 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
979 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
980 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
981 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
982 above, but already depends on that.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
986 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
989 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
990 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
991 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
992 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
993 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
997 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1003 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1009 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1010 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1014 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1017 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1021 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1025 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1026 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1027 new version (0.24.1).
1028 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1029 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1032 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1033 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1034 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1035 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1036 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1037 new directory on their own.
1038 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1039 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1043 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1046 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1047 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1048 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1049 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1053 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1056 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1057 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1058 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1059 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1060 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1064 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1070 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1074 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1075 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1079 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1080 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1084 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1086 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1087 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1089 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1090 ignored. Closes: #337664
1092 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1097 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1103 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1108 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1109 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1110 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1111 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1112 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1113 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1114 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1118 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1121 version. Closes: #350607
1122 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1123 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1124 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1125 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1129 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1132 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1133 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1134 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1138 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1145 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1151 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1154 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1158 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1161 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1162 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1163 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1164 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1165 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1166 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1170 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1173 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1174 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1179 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1182 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1186 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1189 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1193 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1196 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1197 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1198 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1199 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1200 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1201 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1205 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1209 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1210 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1211 link. Closes: #346405
1212 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1214 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1215 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1216 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1217 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1218 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1219 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1220 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1224 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1231 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1237 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1240 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1244 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1247 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1252 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1256 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1257 installed. Closes: #342033
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1261 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1264 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1265 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1266 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1271 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1277 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1283 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1287 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1288 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1289 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1293 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1296 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1301 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1308 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1314 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1317 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1318 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1319 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1320 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1321 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1322 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1323 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1325 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1329 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1332 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1333 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1337 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1340 in standard man dirs.
1341 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1345 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1351 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1354 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1359 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1366 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1373 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1376 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1377 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1381 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1384 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1385 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1386 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1388 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1390 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1396 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1402 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1405 mode. Closes: #324161
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1409 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1412 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1413 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1414 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1415 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1420 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1423 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1424 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1425 is necesary for sanity.
1426 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1427 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1432 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1434 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1435 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1439 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1442 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1446 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1452 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1455 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1456 released, so use at your own risk.
1457 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1458 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1460 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1461 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1462 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1463 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1464 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1465 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1466 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1467 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1468 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1469 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1470 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1471 including twice per config file line now..
1472 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1473 and simplfy the rules file.
1474 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1475 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1476 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1478 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1479 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1483 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1486 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1490 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1493 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1497 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1500 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1504 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1507 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1508 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1509 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1510 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1511 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1512 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1516 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1519 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1520 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1521 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1526 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1529 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1530 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1535 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1538 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1539 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1540 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1545 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1548 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1549 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1550 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1554 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1560 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1567 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1570 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1571 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1572 unknown. Closes: #282924
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1576 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1583 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Spanish man page updates.
1586 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1591 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1597 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1600 * dh_desktop: reindent
1601 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1602 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1606 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1612 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1614 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1618 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1620 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1624 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1627 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1628 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1632 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1638 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1644 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1651 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1654 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1658 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1661 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1662 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1663 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1664 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1665 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1666 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1668 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1669 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1670 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1671 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1672 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1673 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1674 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1675 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1676 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1677 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1678 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1679 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1680 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1681 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1682 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1683 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1687 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1694 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1697 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1701 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1704 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1708 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1711 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1715 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1718 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1722 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1728 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1734 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1740 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1743 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1744 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1745 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1749 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1752 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1756 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1759 but occasionally right and necessary.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1763 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1766 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1767 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1768 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1769 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1770 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1774 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1777 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1779 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1780 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1781 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1782 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1783 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1784 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1785 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1786 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1787 postinst scripts for udebs.
1788 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1792 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1795 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1797 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1798 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1802 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1808 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1815 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1822 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1825 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1829 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1832 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1836 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1839 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1842 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1843 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1847 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1853 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1856 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1860 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1863 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1864 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1865 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1867 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1869 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1870 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1871 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1875 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1878 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1883 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1886 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1887 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1888 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1893 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1899 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1908 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1909 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1910 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1911 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1912 associated -dbg packages.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1916 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1919 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1923 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1926 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1930 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1933 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1937 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1940 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1945 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1948 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1952 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1955 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1960 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1963 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1971 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1972 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1973 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1974 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1975 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1976 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1977 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1978 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1979 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1980 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1984 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1987 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1995 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1996 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2000 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2003 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2004 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2009 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2012 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2016 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2019 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2023 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2026 out section number. Closes: #204731
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2030 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2037 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2043 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2049 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2052 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2053 removal. Closes: #204286
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2057 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2060 renaming. Closes: #203548
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2064 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2067 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2068 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2072 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2078 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2084 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2090 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2093 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2094 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2095 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2099 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2102 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2103 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2107 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2113 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2120 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2123 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2128 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2131 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2138 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2140 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2141 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2145 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2148 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2156 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2160 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2166 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2168 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2172 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2175 it break hard links (see #188663).
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2179 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2182 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2186 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2192 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2196 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2197 debconf-mergetemplates
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2201 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2204 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2208 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2211 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2215 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2218 * Update debhelper(1).
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2222 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2225 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2226 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2227 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2228 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2229 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2233 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2236 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2237 the shell. Closes: #178524
2238 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2242 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2245 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2249 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2252 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2256 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2259 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2260 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2261 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2262 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2267 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2270 files from installation.
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2274 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2277 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2278 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2282 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2285 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2289 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2292 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2296 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2302 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2308 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2312 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2313 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2315 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2319 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2322 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2323 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2324 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2325 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2329 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2332 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2336 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2339 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2340 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2344 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2348 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2353 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2359 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2363 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2364 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2365 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2370 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2373 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2374 practice. Closes: #163303
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2378 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2384 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2394 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2396 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2397 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2398 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2399 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2400 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2404 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2407 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2412 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2425 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2428 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2433 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2439 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2445 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2451 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2458 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2461 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2462 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2463 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2464 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2469 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2475 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2482 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2485 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2486 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2490 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2493 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2494 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2495 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2496 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2497 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2504 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2506 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2511 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2514 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2518 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2521 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2522 right thing. Closes: #150644
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Stupid, evil typo.
2529 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2533 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2540 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2543 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2544 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2549 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2555 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2558 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2562 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2565 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2566 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2571 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2574 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2578 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2584 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2587 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2588 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2598 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * Removing perl warning message.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2604 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2607 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2608 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2609 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2610 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2611 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2612 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2613 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2614 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2618 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2624 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2631 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2634 debconf-mergetemplate.
2635 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2636 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2640 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2643 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2644 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2645 dh_install, which ...
2646 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2647 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2648 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2649 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2650 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2651 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2652 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2653 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2654 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2655 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2656 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2657 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2658 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2659 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2660 other minor changes.
2661 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2662 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2663 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2664 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2665 course there's -X ..)
2666 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2667 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2668 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2670 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2671 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2672 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2673 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2674 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2679 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2685 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2688 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2692 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2698 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2704 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2710 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2716 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2719 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2720 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2721 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2722 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2724 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2725 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2729 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2735 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2738 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2742 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2745 upset. Closes: #131322
2747 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2749 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2752 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2753 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2754 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2755 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2756 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2757 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2758 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2759 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2760 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2761 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2762 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2763 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2764 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2765 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2766 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2768 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2772 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2775 - Better indenting of generated code.
2776 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2780 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2784 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2785 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2786 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2787 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2788 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2789 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2790 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2794 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2797 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2801 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2804 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2805 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2806 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2807 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2808 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2809 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2810 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2811 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2812 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2813 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2814 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2815 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2816 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2817 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2818 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2823 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2829 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2832 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2833 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2837 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2840 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2841 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2845 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2851 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2854 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2855 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2856 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2857 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2858 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2863 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2869 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2872 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2876 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2879 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2884 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2890 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2893 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2897 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2903 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2907 Also some indentation fixes.
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2911 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2914 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2915 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2916 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2917 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2918 Closes: #106514, #85520
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2922 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2928 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2934 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2940 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2946 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2952 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2955 change it in debhelper v4..
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2959 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2965 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2968 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2972 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2975 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2979 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2985 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2988 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2989 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2990 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2991 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2992 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2993 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2994 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2995 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2996 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2997 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2998 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2999 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3003 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3006 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3010 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3017 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3020 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3021 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3022 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3023 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3024 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3025 program those options go to. So, for example,
3026 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3027 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3028 something complex. Closes: #89311
3029 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3033 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3036 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3037 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3038 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3042 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3045 through loop. Closes: #98598
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3049 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Missing semi-colon.
3052 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3053 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3057 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3060 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3061 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3062 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3066 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3069 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3070 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3074 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3077 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3081 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3084 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3085 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3089 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3092 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3093 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3094 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3098 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3101 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3102 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3103 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3107 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3110 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3114 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3120 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3126 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3132 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3138 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3141 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3145 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3148 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3149 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3150 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3151 followed. Closes: #85483
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3155 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3157 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3158 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3159 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3163 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3166 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3167 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3168 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3169 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3170 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3171 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3172 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3173 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3174 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3175 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3176 Closes: #88464, #77743
3177 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3178 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3179 us to deal with that gracefully.
3180 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3182 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3183 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3184 a while, Closes: #51225
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3188 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3194 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3197 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3201 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3205 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3210 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3213 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3214 don't make packlist files.
3215 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3216 debhelper coding standards.
3217 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3218 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3222 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3225 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3229 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3232 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3233 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3234 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3235 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3236 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3237 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3238 but is mildly deprecated.
3239 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3240 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3241 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3242 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3243 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3244 switching to statoverrides..
3245 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3246 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3247 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3248 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3249 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3250 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3252 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3253 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3254 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3255 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3256 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3257 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3258 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3259 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3260 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3262 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3263 variable names, pod man pages).
3264 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3265 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3266 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3267 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3268 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3269 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3270 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3274 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3280 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3287 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3290 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3294 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3296 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3297 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3298 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3302 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3304 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3305 they were previously ignored.
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3309 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3311 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3312 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3316 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3318 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3319 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3320 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3324 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3326 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3330 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3332 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3333 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3337 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3339 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3340 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3341 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3342 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3343 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3344 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3345 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3346 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3347 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3348 it is an obsolete program.
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3352 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3354 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3358 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3362 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3364 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3368 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3370 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3372 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3374 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3378 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3384 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * typo: Closes, #78567
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3390 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3396 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3402 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3405 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3406 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3407 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3408 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3409 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3413 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3416 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3421 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3424 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3425 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3426 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3427 backwards-compatability.
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3431 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3434 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3435 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3436 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3437 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3438 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3439 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3441 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3442 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3443 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3445 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3447 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3448 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3449 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3450 should now be raised to severity important..
3451 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3452 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3456 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3459 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3464 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3470 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3476 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3482 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3489 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3492 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3493 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3494 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3495 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3499 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3505 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3508 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3509 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3510 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3511 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3512 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3513 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3518 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3521 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3525 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3531 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3534 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3539 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3542 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3543 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3544 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3545 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3549 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3553 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3556 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3559 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3560 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3563 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3565 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3566 the TODO entry about it.
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3570 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3577 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3580 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3581 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3585 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3588 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3589 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3590 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3591 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3595 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3601 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3608 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3611 (this appears to be logal).
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3615 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3618 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3619 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3620 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3621 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3625 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3634 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3635 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3636 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3637 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3641 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3647 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3650 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3654 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3661 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3664 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3665 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3666 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3671 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3678 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3684 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3687 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3688 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3689 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3690 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3691 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3692 notice until v2 is complete.
3693 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3694 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3695 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3696 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3697 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3698 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3700 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3701 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3702 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3703 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3707 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3713 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3720 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3723 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3727 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3734 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3737 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3738 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3739 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3740 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3745 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3748 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3749 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3750 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3755 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3758 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3759 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3763 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3766 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3770 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3773 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3777 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3784 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3787 depend on the build and install targets.
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3791 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3794 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3798 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3805 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3811 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3817 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3820 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3821 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3822 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3823 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3824 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3825 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3827 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3828 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3829 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3830 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3831 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3832 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3833 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3837 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3843 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3849 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3852 right place. Closes: #55065
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3856 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3863 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3866 * Copyright date updates.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3870 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3873 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3878 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3884 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3891 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3897 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3903 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3909 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3912 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3913 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3914 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3915 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3916 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3917 bits until all files have been registered.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3921 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * dh_installmanpages:
3924 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3925 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3926 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3927 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3928 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3929 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3930 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3931 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3932 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3933 otherwise change the result at all.
3935 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3936 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3937 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3938 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3939 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3944 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3950 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3953 act on files that don't exist.
3954 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3955 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3956 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3958 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3959 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3960 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3961 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3965 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3971 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3977 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3980 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3984 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3987 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3989 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3990 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3991 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3995 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3998 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3999 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4000 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4001 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4002 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4003 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4004 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4006 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4008 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4012 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4019 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4025 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4031 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4034 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4044 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4050 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4053 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4054 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4055 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4056 I made some changes, though:
4057 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4058 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4059 that is a clear violation of policy.
4060 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4061 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4062 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4063 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4064 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4065 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4066 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4067 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4068 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4070 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4074 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4080 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4083 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4087 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4090 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4091 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4096 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4102 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4109 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4112 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4113 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4114 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4115 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4116 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4117 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4118 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4122 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4128 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4132 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4133 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4137 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4143 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4146 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4153 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4154 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4158 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4160 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4165 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4169 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4176 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4177 for the dependancies to be generated.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4181 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4184 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4188 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4191 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4192 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4193 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4198 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4201 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4202 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4218 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4221 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4231 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4234 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4235 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4236 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4237 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4238 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4239 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4240 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4241 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4242 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4243 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4244 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4245 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4249 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4252 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4253 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4255 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4256 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4257 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4258 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4259 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4260 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4262 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4263 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4267 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4270 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4274 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4281 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4284 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4289 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4292 for building debhelper.
4293 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4297 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4304 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4307 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4311 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4314 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4315 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4316 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4317 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4318 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4319 it's always available.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4323 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4326 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4327 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4328 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4332 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4335 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4336 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4340 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4346 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4349 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4353 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4359 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4362 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4363 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4364 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4368 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4371 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4376 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4379 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4380 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4382 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4383 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4387 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4402 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4406 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4409 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4410 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4412 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4416 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4419 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4420 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4421 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4425 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4428 things if CDPATH is set.
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4432 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4438 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4441 seems to make sense for the transition.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4445 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4448 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4453 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4456 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4457 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4461 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4464 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4468 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4471 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4472 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4473 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4474 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4478 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4484 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4487 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4488 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4489 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4490 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4491 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4492 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4493 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4494 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4495 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4496 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4501 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4504 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4505 * README: mention doc/v2
4506 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4507 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4511 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4513 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4514 be using this script RSN.
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4518 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4521 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4522 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4523 more than 1 init script.
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4527 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4530 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4534 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * Changed perl version detection.
4537 * Changed call to find.
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4541 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4544 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4546 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4551 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * Really include dh_installpam.
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4557 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4560 * Wrote man page for same.
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4564 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4567 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4568 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4573 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4580 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4583 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4584 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4585 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4586 x bit was being set!
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4590 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4593 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4594 well. (Closes: 38900)
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4598 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4601 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4602 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4606 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4612 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4619 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4625 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4628 help from Julian Gilbey.
4629 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4630 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4631 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4632 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4633 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4634 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4635 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4640 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4646 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4653 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4659 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4665 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4668 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4672 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4675 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4679 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4682 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4686 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4692 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4695 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4699 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4705 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4711 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4714 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4715 may be deleted. (#35845)
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4719 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * Various man page enhancements.
4722 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4727 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4730 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4731 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4735 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4738 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4739 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4740 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4742 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4743 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4748 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4754 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * Another very minor typo fix.
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4760 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * Very minor typo fix.
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4766 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4769 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4770 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4774 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4780 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4783 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4784 variables properly (#34850).
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4788 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4794 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4797 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4798 (automatically generated by build process).
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4802 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4804 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4808 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4811 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4812 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4814 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4818 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4821 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4825 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * README: minor typo fix.
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4831 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4834 leave it at that. :-)
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4838 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4844 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4850 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4853 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4854 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4855 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4859 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4862 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4866 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4869 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4873 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4876 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4877 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4878 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4879 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4883 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4886 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4887 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4888 Craig Small for spotting this.
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4892 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4895 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4896 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4900 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4906 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4909 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4913 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4915 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4916 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4917 working on the last version of debhelper.
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4921 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4924 being made. (#23255)
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4928 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4934 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4937 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4941 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4944 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4945 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4946 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4947 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4951 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4954 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4955 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4956 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4957 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4959 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4960 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4962 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4967 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4973 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4979 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4982 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4983 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4984 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4985 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4986 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4987 suidregister actually supports it.
4988 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4989 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4993 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5000 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5003 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5004 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5005 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5006 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5007 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5008 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5009 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5013 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5015 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5016 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5020 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5023 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5024 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5025 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5026 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5030 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5033 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5035 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5036 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5037 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5038 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5039 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5040 effect, either. (#30118)
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5044 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5050 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5053 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5054 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5058 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5064 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5067 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5068 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5069 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5070 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5074 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5077 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5078 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5082 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5088 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5091 packages, painlessly.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5095 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5101 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5107 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5113 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * The perl conversion is complete.
5117 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5119 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5120 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5121 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5126 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5129 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5130 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5131 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5135 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5138 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5140 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5142 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5143 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5147 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5150 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5151 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5155 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5161 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5164 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5165 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5166 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5167 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5168 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5172 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5175 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5176 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5177 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5178 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5182 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5185 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5189 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5192 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5193 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5194 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5195 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5196 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5197 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5198 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5199 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5203 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5209 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5212 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5213 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5214 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5219 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5222 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5226 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5229 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5233 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5236 sections of shared libraries.
5237 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5238 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5239 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5240 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5241 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5242 things you don't want them to.
5243 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5244 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5248 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5251 shared libraries. (#26414)
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5255 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5257 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5258 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5259 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5260 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5264 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5268 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5270 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5271 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5272 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5273 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5274 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5278 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5281 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5285 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5288 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5289 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5294 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5297 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5301 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5304 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5305 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5306 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5307 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5308 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5310 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5311 remove debian/files properly.
5312 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5313 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5314 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5315 * Removed bogus menu file.
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5319 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5322 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5326 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5329 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5330 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5331 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5332 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5333 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5334 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5338 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5341 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5342 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5343 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5344 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5348 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5355 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5358 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5359 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5361 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5362 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5363 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5364 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5365 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5366 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5370 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5373 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5374 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5375 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5376 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5377 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5378 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5379 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5380 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5381 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5382 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5383 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5384 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5385 passed any switches.
5386 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5390 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5393 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5394 at all for a long while.
5395 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5396 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5397 large chunks in the process.
5398 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5399 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5400 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5405 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5408 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5410 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5415 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5418 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5419 that don't always have the same files in them.
5420 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5421 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5422 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5426 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5430 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5431 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5432 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5433 updating 27 man pages.
5434 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5435 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5436 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5437 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5438 programs act on. (#25247)
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5442 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5446 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5447 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5448 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5449 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5450 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5451 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5456 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5463 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5470 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5473 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5477 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5483 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5486 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5487 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5488 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5489 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5490 package by accident.
5491 * Is version 1.0 next?
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5495 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5498 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5499 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5503 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5506 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5507 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5508 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5509 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5510 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5512 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5517 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5520 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5521 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5525 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5528 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5532 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5535 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5536 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5541 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5543 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5547 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5550 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5551 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5556 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5562 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5565 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5566 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5567 past week. Thanks, guys!
5569 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5570 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5571 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5572 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5573 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5574 would do in the same situation.
5575 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5576 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5578 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5580 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5581 permissions changed.
5582 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5583 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5584 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5585 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5586 files are treated identically.
5587 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5588 * Minor man page fixes.
5589 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5590 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5591 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5595 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5598 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5599 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5600 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5601 use -X multiple times, too.
5602 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5603 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5607 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5610 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5611 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5615 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5618 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5622 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5625 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5626 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5627 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5628 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5629 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5630 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5631 shape if you're starting a new package.
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5635 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5638 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5642 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5645 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5646 because of missing symlinks.
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5650 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5656 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5659 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5660 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5661 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5662 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5663 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5665 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5666 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5670 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5672 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5673 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5674 to be changed after the fact :-)
5675 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5679 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5681 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5682 no version string after the -V.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5686 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5688 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5689 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5694 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5697 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5701 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5704 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5705 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5706 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5707 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5708 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5709 I always welcome corrections!
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5713 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5719 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5721 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5722 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5723 * Documented this new switch.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5727 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5730 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5731 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5732 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5733 no packages use the old behavior.
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5737 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5740 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5741 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5745 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5748 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5752 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5754 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5758 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5761 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5765 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5768 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5769 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5770 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5774 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5780 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5783 into the source package by accident.
5785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5787 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5789 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5790 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5791 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5792 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5793 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5794 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5795 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5800 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5802 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5804 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5805 inspired to implement some of it.
5806 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5810 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5813 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5817 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5820 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5821 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5825 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5828 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5829 have done.) (#17598)
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5833 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5839 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5841 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5845 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5848 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5852 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5855 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5856 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5860 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5863 argument processor in perl.
5864 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5865 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5866 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5867 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5871 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5874 type directories. (#16933)
5875 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5876 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5877 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5878 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5879 are supported. (#16935)
5880 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5885 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5888 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5892 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5896 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5897 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5898 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5899 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5900 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5901 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5905 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5908 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5909 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5911 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5912 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5913 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5914 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5915 a given package, or -i or -a.
5916 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5917 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5918 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5919 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5920 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5921 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5922 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5923 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5924 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5926 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5927 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5928 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5932 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5935 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5936 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5941 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5944 does not have a section.
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5948 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5951 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5952 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5953 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5957 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5959 * Fixed typo #16215.
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5963 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5966 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5967 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5968 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5969 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5970 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5975 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5978 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5979 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5980 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5985 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5991 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5997 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6000 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6001 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6002 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6003 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6004 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6005 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6009 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6015 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6018 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6022 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6025 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6026 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6027 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6031 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6034 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6038 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6040 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6044 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6046 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6047 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6051 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6054 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6058 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6064 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6066 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6067 postinst, postrm, etc.
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6071 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6073 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6077 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6079 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6080 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6081 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6082 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6083 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6084 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6088 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6091 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6092 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6096 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6098 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6099 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6103 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6105 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6106 installing package files into.
6107 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6112 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6114 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6116 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6120 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6122 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6126 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6129 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6133 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6135 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6136 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6137 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6138 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6139 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6143 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6145 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6146 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6147 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6148 multiple binary packages.
6149 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6150 should rebuild them with this version.
6151 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6155 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6157 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6158 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6162 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6164 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6165 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6169 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6171 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6172 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6173 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6174 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6175 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6176 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6177 debian/README.debian.
6178 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6179 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6180 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6181 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6182 in a few situations.)
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6186 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6192 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6194 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6198 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6201 * Fixed several man pages.
6203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6205 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6207 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6208 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6209 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6213 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6215 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6216 is ready for general use.
6217 * Added man pages for all commands.
6218 * Multiple binary package support.
6219 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6220 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6221 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6223 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6224 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6225 auto-installed as parameters.
6226 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6228 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6231 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6232 the package build directory it is to act on.
6233 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6234 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6235 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6239 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6241 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6242 ready to replace debstd.
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400