1 debhelper (5.0.60) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
4 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
5 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
6 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:33:41 -0400
10 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
12 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
13 debian/package.triggers files.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
17 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
20 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
24 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
27 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
28 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
29 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
30 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
35 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
38 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
42 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
45 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
46 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
48 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
53 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
55 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
57 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
58 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
59 * Typo. Closes: #441272
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
63 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
70 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
77 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
80 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
82 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
83 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
84 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
86 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
87 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
88 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
92 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
95 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
96 * Update urls to web page.
97 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
99 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
100 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
104 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
106 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
107 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
108 - typo in alternatives call
109 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
111 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
112 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
116 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
119 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
124 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
130 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
136 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
139 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
141 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
142 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
143 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
144 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
145 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
146 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
147 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
148 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
149 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
150 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
151 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
155 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
158 package install. Closes: #415717
159 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
160 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
161 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
162 script and then remove the python files.
163 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
164 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
165 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
166 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
167 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
168 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
169 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
170 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
171 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
172 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
173 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
174 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
175 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
179 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Correct typo in french translation
185 * Typo. Closes: #400571
186 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
188 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
190 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
191 Closes: #406921, #381940
192 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
194 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
195 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
196 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
197 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
198 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
199 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
200 specified). Closes: #381851
201 * Misc minor changes.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
205 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
212 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
213 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
217 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
223 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
224 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
227 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
228 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
230 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
231 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
232 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
233 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
237 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
240 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
243 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
247 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
253 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
259 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
260 a difficult situation.
261 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
262 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
263 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
264 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
265 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
266 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
267 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
268 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
269 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
270 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
274 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Non-maintainer upload.
277 * Update of dh_python
278 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
279 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
281 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
282 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
283 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
284 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
285 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
287 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
289 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Non-maintainer upload.
292 * Update of dh_python
293 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
294 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
295 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
296 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
297 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
298 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
299 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
300 specific python version. Closes: #373853
301 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
302 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
304 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
305 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
306 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
307 the not too-distant future).
308 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
309 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
310 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
311 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
312 thus made the build fail.
314 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
316 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Non-maintainer upload.
319 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
321 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
323 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
326 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
327 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
328 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
329 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
330 package. Closes: #301424
331 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
332 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
333 fonts). Closes: #372686
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
337 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
340 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
343 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
344 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
345 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
346 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
347 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
348 above, but already depends on that.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
352 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
355 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
356 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
357 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
358 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
359 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
363 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
369 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
375 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
376 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
380 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
383 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
387 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
391 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
392 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
393 new version (0.24.1).
394 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
395 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
398 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
399 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
400 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
401 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
402 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
403 new directory on their own.
404 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
405 * Fix broken directory removal code.
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
409 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
412 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
413 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
414 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
415 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
419 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
422 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
423 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
424 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
425 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
426 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
430 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
432 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
436 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Typo. Closes: #358904
440 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
441 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
445 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
446 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
450 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
452 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
453 || exit 0 instead of the intended
455 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
456 ignored. Closes: #337664
458 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
463 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
469 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
474 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
475 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
476 the dh_installdebconf manpage
477 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
478 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
479 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
480 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
484 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
487 version. Closes: #350607
488 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
489 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
490 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
491 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
495 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
498 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
499 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
500 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
504 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
511 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Minor bug fix from last release.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
517 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
520 language guessing. Closes: #193221
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
524 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
527 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
528 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
529 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
530 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
531 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
532 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
536 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
539 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
540 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
545 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
548 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
552 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
555 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
559 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
562 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
563 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
564 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
565 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
566 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
567 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
571 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
574 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
575 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
576 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
577 link. Closes: #346405
578 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
581 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
582 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
583 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
584 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
585 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
586 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
590 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
597 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
599 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
603 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
606 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
610 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
613 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
618 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
622 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
623 installed. Closes: #342033
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
627 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
630 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
631 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
632 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
637 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
643 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
649 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
653 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
654 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
655 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
659 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
662 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
667 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
674 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
680 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
682 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
683 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
684 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
685 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
686 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
687 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
688 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
689 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
691 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
695 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
697 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
698 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
699 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
703 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
706 in standard man dirs.
707 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
711 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
717 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
720 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
725 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
732 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
739 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
742 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
743 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
747 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
749 * NMU with maintainer approval.
750 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
751 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
752 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
754 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
756 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
762 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
768 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
771 mode. Closes: #324161
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
775 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
777 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
778 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
779 behavior change. Closes: #249815
780 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
781 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
786 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
789 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
790 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
791 is necesary for sanity.
792 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
793 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
798 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
800 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
801 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
805 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
807 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
808 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
812 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
814 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
818 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
821 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
822 released, so use at your own risk.
823 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
824 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
826 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
827 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
828 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
829 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
830 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
831 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
832 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
833 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
834 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
835 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
836 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
837 including twice per config file line now..
838 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
839 and simplfy the rules file.
840 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
841 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
842 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
844 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
845 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
849 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
851 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
852 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
856 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
859 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
863 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
865 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
866 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
870 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
873 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
874 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
875 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
876 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
877 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
878 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
882 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
885 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
886 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
887 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
892 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
895 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
896 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
901 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
904 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
905 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
906 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
911 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
914 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
915 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
916 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
920 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
926 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
933 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
936 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
937 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
938 unknown. Closes: #282924
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
942 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
949 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Spanish man page updates.
952 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
957 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
963 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
966 * dh_desktop: reindent
967 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
968 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
972 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
978 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
980 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
984 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
986 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
990 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
993 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
994 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
998 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1004 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1010 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1017 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1020 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1024 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1027 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1028 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1029 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1030 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1031 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1032 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1034 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1035 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1036 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1037 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1038 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1039 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1040 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1041 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1042 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1043 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1044 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1045 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1046 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1047 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1048 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1049 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1053 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1060 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1063 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1067 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1070 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1074 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1077 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1081 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1084 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1088 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1094 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1100 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1106 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1109 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1110 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1111 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1115 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1118 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1122 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1125 but occasionally right and necessary.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1129 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1132 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1133 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1134 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1135 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1136 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1140 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1143 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1145 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1146 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1147 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1148 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1149 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1150 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1151 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1152 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1153 postinst scripts for udebs.
1154 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1158 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1161 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1163 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1164 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1168 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1174 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1181 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1188 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1191 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1195 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1198 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1202 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1205 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1208 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1209 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1213 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1219 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1222 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1226 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1229 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1230 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1231 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1233 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1235 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1236 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1237 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1241 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1244 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1249 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1252 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1253 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1254 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1259 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1265 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1271 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1274 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1275 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1276 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1277 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1278 associated -dbg packages.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1282 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1285 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1289 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1292 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1296 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1299 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1303 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1306 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1311 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1314 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1318 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1321 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1326 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1329 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1333 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1337 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1338 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1339 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1340 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1341 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1342 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1343 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1344 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1345 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1346 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1350 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1353 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1358 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1361 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1362 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1366 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1369 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1370 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1375 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1378 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1382 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1385 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1389 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1392 out section number. Closes: #204731
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1396 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1403 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1409 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1415 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1418 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1419 removal. Closes: #204286
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1423 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1426 renaming. Closes: #203548
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1430 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1433 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1434 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1438 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1444 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1450 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1456 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1459 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1460 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1461 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1465 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1468 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1469 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1473 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1479 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1486 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1489 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1494 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1497 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1501 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1504 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1506 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1507 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1511 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1514 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1519 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1522 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1526 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1532 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1534 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1538 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1541 it break hard links (see #188663).
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1545 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1548 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1552 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1558 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1562 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1563 debconf-mergetemplates
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1567 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1570 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1574 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1577 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1581 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1584 * Update debhelper(1).
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1588 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1591 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1592 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1593 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1594 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1595 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1599 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1602 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1603 the shell. Closes: #178524
1604 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1608 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1611 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1615 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1618 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1622 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1625 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1626 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1627 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1628 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1633 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1636 files from installation.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1640 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1643 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1644 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1648 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1651 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1655 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1658 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1662 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1668 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1674 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1678 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1679 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1681 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1685 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1688 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1689 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1690 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1691 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1695 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1698 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1702 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1705 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1706 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1710 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1714 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1719 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1725 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1729 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1730 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1731 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1736 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1739 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1740 practice. Closes: #163303
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1744 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1750 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1757 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1760 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1762 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1763 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1764 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1765 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1766 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1770 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1773 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1778 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1784 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1791 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1794 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1799 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1805 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1811 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1817 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1824 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1827 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1828 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1829 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1830 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1835 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1841 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1848 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1851 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1852 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1856 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1859 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1860 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1861 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1862 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1863 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1867 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1870 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1872 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1877 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1880 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1884 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1887 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1888 right thing. Closes: #150644
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Stupid, evil typo.
1895 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1899 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1906 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1909 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1910 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1915 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1921 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1924 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1928 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1931 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1932 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1937 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1940 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1944 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1950 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1953 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1954 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1958 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1964 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Removing perl warning message.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1970 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1973 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1974 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1975 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1976 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1977 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1978 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1979 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1980 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1984 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1990 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1997 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2000 debconf-mergetemplate.
2001 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2002 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2006 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2009 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2010 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2011 dh_install, which ...
2012 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2013 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2014 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2015 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2016 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2017 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2018 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2019 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2020 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2021 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2022 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2023 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2024 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2025 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2026 other minor changes.
2027 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2028 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2029 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2030 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2031 course there's -X ..)
2032 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2033 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2034 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2036 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2037 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2038 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2039 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2040 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2045 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2051 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2054 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2058 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2064 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2070 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2076 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2082 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2085 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2086 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2087 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2088 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2090 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2091 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2095 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2101 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2104 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2108 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2111 upset. Closes: #131322
2113 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2115 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2118 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2119 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2120 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2121 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2122 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2123 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2124 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2125 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2126 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2127 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2128 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2129 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2130 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2131 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2132 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2134 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2138 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2141 - Better indenting of generated code.
2142 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2146 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2150 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2151 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2152 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2153 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2154 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2155 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2156 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2160 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2163 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2167 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2170 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2171 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2172 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2173 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2174 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2175 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2176 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2177 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2178 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2179 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2180 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2181 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2182 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2183 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2184 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2189 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2195 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2198 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2199 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2203 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2206 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2207 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2211 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2217 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2220 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2221 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2222 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2223 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2224 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2229 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2235 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2238 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2242 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2245 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2250 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2256 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2259 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2263 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2269 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2273 Also some indentation fixes.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2277 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2280 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2281 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2282 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2283 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2284 Closes: #106514, #85520
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2288 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2294 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2300 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2306 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2312 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2318 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2321 change it in debhelper v4..
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2325 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2331 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2334 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2338 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2341 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2345 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2351 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2354 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2355 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2356 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2357 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2358 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2359 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2360 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2361 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2362 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2363 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2364 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2365 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2369 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2372 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2376 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2383 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2386 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2387 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2388 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2389 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2390 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2391 program those options go to. So, for example,
2392 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2393 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2394 something complex. Closes: #89311
2395 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2399 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2402 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2403 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2404 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2408 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2411 through loop. Closes: #98598
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2415 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Missing semi-colon.
2418 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2419 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2423 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2426 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2427 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2428 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2432 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2435 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2436 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2440 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2443 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2447 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2450 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2451 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2455 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2458 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2459 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2460 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2464 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2467 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2468 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2469 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2473 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2476 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2480 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2486 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2492 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2498 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2504 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2507 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2511 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2514 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2515 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2516 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2517 followed. Closes: #85483
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2521 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2523 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2524 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2525 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2529 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2532 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2533 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2534 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2535 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2536 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2537 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2538 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2539 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2540 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2541 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2542 Closes: #88464, #77743
2543 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2544 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2545 us to deal with that gracefully.
2546 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2548 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2549 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2550 a while, Closes: #51225
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2554 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2560 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2563 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2567 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2571 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2576 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2579 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2580 don't make packlist files.
2581 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2582 debhelper coding standards.
2583 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2584 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2588 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2591 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2595 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2598 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2599 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2600 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2601 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2602 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2603 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2604 but is mildly deprecated.
2605 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2606 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2607 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2608 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2609 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2610 switching to statoverrides..
2611 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2612 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2613 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2614 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2615 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2616 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2618 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2619 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2620 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2621 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2622 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2623 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2624 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2625 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2626 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2628 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2629 variable names, pod man pages).
2630 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2631 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2632 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2633 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2634 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2635 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2636 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2640 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2646 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2653 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2656 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2660 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2662 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2663 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2664 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2668 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2670 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2671 they were previously ignored.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2675 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2677 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2678 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2682 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2684 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2685 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2686 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2690 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2692 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2696 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2698 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2699 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2703 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2705 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2706 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2707 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2708 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2709 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2710 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2711 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2712 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2713 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2714 it is an obsolete program.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2718 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2720 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2724 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2728 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2730 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2734 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2736 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2738 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2740 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2744 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2750 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * typo: Closes, #78567
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2756 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2762 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2768 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2771 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2772 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2773 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2774 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2775 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2779 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2782 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2787 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2790 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2791 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2792 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2793 backwards-compatability.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2797 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2800 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2801 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2802 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2803 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2804 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2805 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2807 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2808 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2809 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2811 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2813 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2814 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2815 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2816 should now be raised to severity important..
2817 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2818 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2822 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2825 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2830 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2836 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2842 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2848 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2855 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2858 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2859 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2860 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2861 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2865 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2871 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2874 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2875 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2876 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2877 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2878 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2879 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2884 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2887 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2891 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2897 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2900 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2905 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2908 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2909 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2910 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2911 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2915 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2919 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2922 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2925 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2926 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2929 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2931 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2932 the TODO entry about it.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2936 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2943 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2946 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2947 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2951 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2954 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2955 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2956 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2957 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2961 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2967 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2974 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2977 (this appears to be logal).
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2981 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2984 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2985 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2986 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2987 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2991 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2997 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3000 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3001 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3002 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3003 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3007 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3013 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3016 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3020 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3027 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3030 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3031 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3032 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3037 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3044 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3050 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3053 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3054 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3055 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3056 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3057 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3058 notice until v2 is complete.
3059 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3060 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3061 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3062 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3063 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3064 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3066 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3067 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3068 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3069 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3073 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3079 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3086 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3089 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3093 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3100 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3103 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3104 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3105 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3106 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3111 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3114 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3115 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3116 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3121 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3124 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3125 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3129 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3132 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3136 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3139 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3143 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3150 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3153 depend on the build and install targets.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3157 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3160 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3164 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3171 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3177 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3183 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3186 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3187 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3188 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3189 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3190 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3191 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3193 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3194 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3195 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3196 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3197 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3198 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3199 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3203 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3209 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3215 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3218 right place. Closes: #55065
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3222 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3229 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3232 * Copyright date updates.
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3236 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3239 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3244 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3250 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3257 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3263 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3269 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3275 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3278 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3279 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3280 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3281 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3282 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3283 bits until all files have been registered.
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3287 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * dh_installmanpages:
3290 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3291 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3292 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3293 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3294 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3295 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3296 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3297 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3298 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3299 otherwise change the result at all.
3301 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3302 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3303 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3304 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3305 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3310 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3316 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3319 act on files that don't exist.
3320 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3321 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3322 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3324 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3325 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3326 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3327 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3331 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3337 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3343 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3346 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3350 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3353 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3355 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3356 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3357 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3361 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3364 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3365 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3366 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3367 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3368 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3369 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3370 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3372 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3374 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3378 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3385 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3391 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3397 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3400 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3404 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3410 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3416 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3419 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3420 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3421 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3422 I made some changes, though:
3423 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3424 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3425 that is a clear violation of policy.
3426 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3427 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3428 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3429 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3430 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3431 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3432 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3433 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3434 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3436 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3440 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3446 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3449 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3453 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3456 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3457 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3462 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3468 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3475 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3478 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3479 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3480 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3481 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3482 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3483 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3484 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3488 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3494 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3498 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3499 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3503 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3509 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3512 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3516 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3519 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3520 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3524 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3526 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3531 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3535 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3539 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3542 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3543 for the dependancies to be generated.
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3547 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3550 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3554 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3557 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3558 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3559 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3564 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3567 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3568 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3572 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3578 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3584 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3587 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3591 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3597 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3600 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3601 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3602 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3603 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3604 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3605 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3606 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3607 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3608 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3609 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3610 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3611 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3615 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3618 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3619 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3621 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3622 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3623 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3624 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3625 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3626 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3628 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3629 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3633 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3636 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3640 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3647 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3650 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3655 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3658 for building debhelper.
3659 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3663 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3670 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3673 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3677 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3680 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3681 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3682 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3683 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3684 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3685 it's always available.
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3689 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3692 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3693 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3694 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3698 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3701 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3702 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3706 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3712 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3715 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3719 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3725 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3728 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3729 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3730 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3734 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3737 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3742 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3745 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3746 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3748 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3749 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3753 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3759 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3765 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3768 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3772 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3775 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3776 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3778 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3782 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3785 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3786 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3787 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3791 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3794 things if CDPATH is set.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3798 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3804 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3807 seems to make sense for the transition.
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3811 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3814 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3819 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3822 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3823 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3827 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3830 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3834 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3837 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3838 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3839 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3840 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3844 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3850 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3853 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3854 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3855 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3856 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3857 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3858 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3859 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3860 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3861 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3862 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3867 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3870 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3871 * README: mention doc/v2
3872 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3873 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3877 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3879 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3880 be using this script RSN.
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3884 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3887 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3888 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3889 more than 1 init script.
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3893 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3896 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3900 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * Changed perl version detection.
3903 * Changed call to find.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3907 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3910 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3912 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3917 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * Really include dh_installpam.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3923 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3926 * Wrote man page for same.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3930 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3933 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3934 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3939 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3946 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3949 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3950 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3951 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3952 x bit was being set!
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3956 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3959 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3960 well. (Closes: 38900)
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3964 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3967 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3968 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3972 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3978 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3985 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3991 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3994 help from Julian Gilbey.
3995 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3996 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3997 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3998 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3999 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4000 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4001 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4006 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4012 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4019 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4025 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4031 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4034 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4038 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4041 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4045 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4048 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4052 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4058 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4061 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4065 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4071 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4077 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4080 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4081 may be deleted. (#35845)
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4085 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * Various man page enhancements.
4088 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4093 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4096 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4097 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4101 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4104 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4105 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4106 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4108 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4109 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4114 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4120 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * Another very minor typo fix.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4126 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Very minor typo fix.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4132 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4135 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4136 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4140 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4146 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4149 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4150 variables properly (#34850).
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4154 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4160 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4163 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4164 (automatically generated by build process).
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4168 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4170 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4174 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4177 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4178 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4180 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4184 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4187 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4191 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * README: minor typo fix.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4197 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4200 leave it at that. :-)
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4204 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4210 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4216 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4219 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4220 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4221 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4225 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4228 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4232 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4235 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4239 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4242 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4243 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4244 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4245 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4249 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4252 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4253 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4254 Craig Small for spotting this.
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4258 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4261 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4262 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4266 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4272 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4275 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4279 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4281 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4282 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4283 working on the last version of debhelper.
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4287 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4290 being made. (#23255)
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4294 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4300 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4303 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4307 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4310 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4311 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4312 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4313 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4317 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4320 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4321 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4322 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4323 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4325 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4326 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4328 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4333 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4339 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4345 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4348 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4349 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4350 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4351 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4352 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4353 suidregister actually supports it.
4354 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4355 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4359 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4366 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4369 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4370 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4371 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4372 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4373 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4374 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4375 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4379 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4381 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4382 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4386 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4389 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4390 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4391 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4392 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4396 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4399 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4401 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4402 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4403 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4404 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4405 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4406 effect, either. (#30118)
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4410 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4416 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4419 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4420 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4424 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4430 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4433 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4434 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4435 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4436 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4440 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4443 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4444 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4448 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4454 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4457 packages, painlessly.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4461 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4467 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4473 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4479 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * The perl conversion is complete.
4483 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4485 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4486 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4487 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4492 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4495 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4496 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4497 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4501 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4504 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4506 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4508 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4509 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4513 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4516 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4517 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4521 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4527 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4530 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4531 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4532 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4533 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4534 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4538 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4541 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4542 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4543 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4544 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4548 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4551 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4555 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4558 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4559 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4560 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4561 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4562 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4563 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4564 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4565 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4569 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4575 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4578 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4579 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4580 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4585 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4588 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4592 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4595 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4599 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4602 sections of shared libraries.
4603 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4604 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4605 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4606 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4607 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4608 things you don't want them to.
4609 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4610 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4614 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4617 shared libraries. (#26414)
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4621 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4623 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4624 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4625 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4626 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4630 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4634 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4636 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4637 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4638 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4639 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4640 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4644 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4647 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4651 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4654 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4655 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4660 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4663 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4667 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4670 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4671 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4672 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4673 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4674 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4676 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4677 remove debian/files properly.
4678 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4679 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4680 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4681 * Removed bogus menu file.
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4685 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4687 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4688 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4692 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4695 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4696 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4697 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4698 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4699 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4700 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4704 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4707 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4708 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4709 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4710 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4714 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4721 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4724 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4725 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4727 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4728 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4729 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4730 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4731 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4732 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4736 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4739 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4740 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4741 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4742 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4743 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4744 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4745 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4746 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4747 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4748 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4749 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4750 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4751 passed any switches.
4752 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4756 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4759 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4760 at all for a long while.
4761 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4762 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4763 large chunks in the process.
4764 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4765 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4766 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4771 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4774 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4776 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4781 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4784 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4785 that don't always have the same files in them.
4786 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4787 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4788 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4792 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4796 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4797 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4798 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4799 updating 27 man pages.
4800 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4801 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4802 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4803 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4804 programs act on. (#25247)
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4808 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4812 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4813 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4814 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4815 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4816 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4817 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4822 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4829 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4836 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4839 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4843 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4849 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4852 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4853 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4854 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4855 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4856 package by accident.
4857 * Is version 1.0 next?
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4861 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4864 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4865 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4869 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4872 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4873 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4874 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4875 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4876 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4878 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4883 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4886 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4887 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4891 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4894 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4898 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4901 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4902 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4907 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4913 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4916 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4917 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4922 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4924 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4928 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4931 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4932 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4933 past week. Thanks, guys!
4935 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4936 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4937 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4938 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4939 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4940 would do in the same situation.
4941 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4942 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4944 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4946 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4947 permissions changed.
4948 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4949 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4950 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4951 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4952 files are treated identically.
4953 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4954 * Minor man page fixes.
4955 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4956 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4957 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4961 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4964 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4965 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4966 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4967 use -X multiple times, too.
4968 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4969 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4973 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4976 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4977 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4981 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4984 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4988 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4991 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4992 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4993 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4994 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4995 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4996 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4997 shape if you're starting a new package.
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5001 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5004 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5008 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5011 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5012 because of missing symlinks.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5016 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5022 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5025 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5026 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5027 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5028 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5029 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5031 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5032 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5036 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5038 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5039 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5040 to be changed after the fact :-)
5041 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5045 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5047 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5048 no version string after the -V.
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5052 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5054 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5055 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5060 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5063 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5067 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5069 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5070 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5071 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5072 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5073 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5074 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5075 I always welcome corrections!
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5079 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5085 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5088 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5089 * Documented this new switch.
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5093 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5095 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5096 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5097 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5098 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5099 no packages use the old behavior.
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5103 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5106 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5107 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5111 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5114 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5118 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5124 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5127 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5131 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5134 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5135 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5136 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5140 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5146 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5149 into the source package by accident.
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5153 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5155 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5156 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5157 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5158 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5159 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5160 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5161 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5166 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5170 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5171 inspired to implement some of it.
5172 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5176 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5179 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5183 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5186 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5187 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5191 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5194 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5195 have done.) (#17598)
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5199 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5205 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5211 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5214 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5218 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5221 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5222 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5226 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5229 argument processor in perl.
5230 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5231 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5232 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5233 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5237 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5240 type directories. (#16933)
5241 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5242 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5243 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5244 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5245 are supported. (#16935)
5246 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5251 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5254 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5258 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5262 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5263 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5264 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5265 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5266 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5267 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5271 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5274 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5275 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5277 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5278 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5279 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5280 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5281 a given package, or -i or -a.
5282 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5283 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5284 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5285 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5286 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5287 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5288 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5289 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5290 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5292 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5293 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5294 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5298 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5301 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5302 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5307 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5310 does not have a section.
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5314 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5317 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5318 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5319 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5323 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * Fixed typo #16215.
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5329 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5332 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5333 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5334 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5335 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5336 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5341 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5344 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5345 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5346 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5351 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5357 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5363 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5366 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5367 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5368 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5369 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5370 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5371 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5375 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5381 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5384 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5388 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5391 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5392 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5393 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5397 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5400 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5404 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5410 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5413 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5417 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5420 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5424 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5430 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5433 postinst, postrm, etc.
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5437 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5443 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5446 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5447 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5448 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5449 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5450 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5454 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5457 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5458 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5462 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5465 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5469 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5472 installing package files into.
5473 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5478 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5482 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5486 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5492 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5495 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5499 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5501 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5502 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5503 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5504 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5505 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5509 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5511 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5512 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5513 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5514 multiple binary packages.
5515 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5516 should rebuild them with this version.
5517 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5521 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5523 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5524 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5528 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5531 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5535 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5537 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5538 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5539 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5540 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5541 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5542 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5543 debian/README.debian.
5544 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5545 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5546 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5547 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5548 in a few situations.)
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5552 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5558 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5564 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5567 * Fixed several man pages.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5571 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5574 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5575 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5579 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5582 is ready for general use.
5583 * Added man pages for all commands.
5584 * Multiple binary package support.
5585 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5586 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5587 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5589 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5590 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5591 auto-installed as parameters.
5592 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5594 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5597 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5598 the package build directory it is to act on.
5599 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5600 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5601 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5605 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5607 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5608 ready to replace debstd.
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400