1 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
4 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
7 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
8 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
9 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
13 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
16 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
17 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
18 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
19 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
20 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
25 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
28 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
29 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
33 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
35 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
39 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
41 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
42 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
44 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
45 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
46 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
50 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
52 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
53 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
57 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
63 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
65 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
66 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
67 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
72 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
74 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
78 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
81 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
82 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
83 created by using `python' first during build and install.
85 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
90 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
92 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
96 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
98 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
99 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
103 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
105 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
109 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
111 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
115 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
117 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
118 contributed by Modestas Vainius
119 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
120 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
121 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
122 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
123 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
124 that support it. Closes: #480577
125 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
126 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
127 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
129 - Adds support for cmake.
130 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
131 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
133 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
135 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
136 that use them. The options are:
137 --sourcedir, --destdir
138 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
139 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
140 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
141 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
142 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
146 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
152 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
155 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
156 default. Closes: #537140
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
160 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
162 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
163 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
164 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
168 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
171 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
175 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
178 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
182 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
185 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
187 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
188 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
189 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
193 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
195 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
196 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
197 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
198 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
202 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
205 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
206 warning or deprecation message.
207 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
208 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
209 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
210 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
211 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
212 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
213 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
214 Closes: #534639, #357434
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
218 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
224 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
227 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
228 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
229 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
230 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
232 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
233 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
234 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
238 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
244 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
251 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
254 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
258 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
262 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
263 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
265 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
266 file support. Closes: #494914
267 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
271 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
274 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
275 parameters. Closes: #527256
276 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
277 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
278 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
282 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
286 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
287 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
288 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
292 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
295 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
296 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
297 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
301 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
304 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
305 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
307 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
308 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
309 by triggers). Closes: #521181
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
313 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
317 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
321 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
324 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
325 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
326 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
327 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
332 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
338 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
340 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
341 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
342 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
343 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
344 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
345 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
347 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
348 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
349 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
350 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
351 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
352 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
356 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
359 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
360 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
361 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
362 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
363 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
365 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
369 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
371 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
375 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
377 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
378 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
379 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
380 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
381 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
382 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
383 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
384 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
385 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
386 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
387 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
391 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
393 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
394 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
396 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
397 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
398 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
399 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
401 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
402 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
406 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
408 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
409 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
410 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
411 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
412 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
413 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
414 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
416 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
417 that uses them. Affected options are:
418 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
419 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
420 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
421 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
422 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
423 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
424 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
425 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
426 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
427 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
428 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
429 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
433 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
440 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
446 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
448 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
449 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
451 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
452 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
453 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
454 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
455 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
457 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
459 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
460 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
461 rules (see bug #509756).
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
465 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
471 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
472 * Typo. Closes: #493062
473 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
474 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
478 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
481 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
482 empty files. Closes: #490937
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
486 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
492 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
499 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
501 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
502 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
503 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
504 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
505 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
510 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
512 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
513 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
514 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
515 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
519 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
522 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
523 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
524 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
525 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
526 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
530 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
537 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
539 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
540 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
541 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
542 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
543 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
544 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
545 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
546 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
547 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
548 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
552 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
555 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
556 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
557 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
558 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
560 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
561 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
562 breaking backwards compatability.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
566 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
569 message in perl 5.10.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
573 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
575 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
579 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Convert copyright file to new format.
582 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
586 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
589 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
593 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
596 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
597 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
598 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
599 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
600 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
601 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
602 logging by dh_listpackages.
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
606 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
609 run and there are no packages of that type.
610 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
611 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
612 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
613 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
615 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
616 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
620 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
622 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
623 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
624 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
628 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
631 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
632 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
634 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
635 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
636 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
637 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
638 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
639 planned but not yet implemented.)
640 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
641 if the Makefile has such a target.
642 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
643 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
644 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
645 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
646 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
647 but not yet implemented.)
648 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
649 recommended default, especially when using dh.
650 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
651 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
652 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
654 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
656 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
657 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
659 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
660 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
661 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
666 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
669 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
670 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
674 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
676 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
677 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
678 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
682 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
688 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
694 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
697 just those installed by the program.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
701 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
704 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
705 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
709 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
712 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
713 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
714 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
715 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
719 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
722 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
723 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
727 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
730 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
731 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
735 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
738 with policy. Closes: #461392
739 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
740 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
741 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
742 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
743 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
747 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
750 Closes: #460340, #460351
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
754 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
757 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
758 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
759 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
760 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
764 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
767 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
768 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
769 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
770 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
771 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
772 package build directory won't work.
773 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
774 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
775 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
776 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
777 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
778 mode. Closes: #459426
779 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
784 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
787 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
791 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
795 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
796 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
797 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
798 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
799 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
800 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
804 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
806 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
807 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
808 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
809 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
810 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
814 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
817 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
818 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
819 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
820 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
821 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
825 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
828 debian/package.triggers files.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
832 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
834 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
835 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
839 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
842 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
843 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
844 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
845 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
850 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
853 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
857 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
860 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
861 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
863 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
868 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
872 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
873 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
874 * Typo. Closes: #441272
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
878 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
885 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
892 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
895 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
897 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
898 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
899 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
901 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
902 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
903 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
907 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
910 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
911 * Update urls to web page.
912 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
914 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
915 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
919 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
922 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
923 - typo in alternatives call
924 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
926 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
927 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
931 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
934 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
939 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
945 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
947 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
951 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
954 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
956 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
957 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
958 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
959 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
960 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
961 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
962 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
963 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
964 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
965 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
966 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
970 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
973 package install. Closes: #415717
974 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
975 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
976 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
977 script and then remove the python files.
978 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
979 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
980 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
981 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
982 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
983 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
984 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
985 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
986 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
987 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
988 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
989 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
990 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
994 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Correct typo in french translation
1000 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1001 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1003 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1005 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1006 Closes: #406921, #381940
1007 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1009 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1010 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1011 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1012 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1013 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1014 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1015 specified). Closes: #381851
1016 * Misc minor changes.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1020 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1027 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1028 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1032 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1038 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1039 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1042 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1043 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1045 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1046 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1047 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1048 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1052 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1055 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1058 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1062 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1068 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1074 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1075 a difficult situation.
1076 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1077 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1078 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1079 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1080 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1081 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1082 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1083 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1084 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1085 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1089 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Non-maintainer upload.
1092 * Update of dh_python
1093 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1094 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1096 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1097 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1098 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1099 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1100 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1102 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1104 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Non-maintainer upload.
1107 * Update of dh_python
1108 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1109 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1110 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1111 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1112 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1113 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1114 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1115 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1116 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1117 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1119 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1120 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1121 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1122 the not too-distant future).
1123 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1124 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1125 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1126 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1127 thus made the build fail.
1129 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1131 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Non-maintainer upload.
1134 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1136 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1138 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1141 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1142 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1143 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1144 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1145 package. Closes: #301424
1146 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1147 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1148 fonts). Closes: #372686
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1152 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1158 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1159 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1160 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1161 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1162 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1163 above, but already depends on that.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1167 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1170 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1171 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1172 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1173 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1174 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1178 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1184 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1190 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1191 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1195 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1198 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1202 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1206 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1207 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1208 new version (0.24.1).
1209 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1210 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1213 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1214 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1215 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1216 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1217 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1218 new directory on their own.
1219 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1220 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1224 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1227 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1228 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1229 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1230 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1234 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1237 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1238 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1239 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1240 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1241 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1245 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1251 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1255 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1256 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1260 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1261 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1265 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1267 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1268 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1270 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1271 ignored. Closes: #337664
1273 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1278 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1284 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1289 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1290 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1291 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1292 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1293 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1294 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1295 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1299 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1302 version. Closes: #350607
1303 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1304 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1305 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1306 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1310 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1313 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1314 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1315 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1319 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1326 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1332 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1335 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1339 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1342 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1343 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1344 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1345 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1346 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1347 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1351 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1354 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1355 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1360 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1363 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1367 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1370 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1374 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1377 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1378 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1379 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1380 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1381 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1382 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1386 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1390 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1391 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1392 link. Closes: #346405
1393 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1395 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1396 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1397 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1398 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1399 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1400 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1401 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1405 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1412 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1418 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1421 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1425 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1428 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1433 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1437 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1438 installed. Closes: #342033
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1442 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1445 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1446 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1447 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1452 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1458 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1464 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1468 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1469 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1470 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1474 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1477 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1482 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1489 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1495 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1498 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1499 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1500 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1501 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1502 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1503 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1504 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1506 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1510 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1513 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1514 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1518 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1521 in standard man dirs.
1522 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1526 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1532 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1535 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1540 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1547 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1554 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1557 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1558 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1562 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1565 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1566 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1567 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1569 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1571 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1577 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1583 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1586 mode. Closes: #324161
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1590 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1593 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1594 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1595 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1596 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1601 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1604 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1605 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1606 is necesary for sanity.
1607 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1608 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1613 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1615 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1616 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1620 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1623 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1627 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1633 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1636 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1637 released, so use at your own risk.
1638 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1639 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1641 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1642 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1643 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1644 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1645 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1646 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1647 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1648 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1649 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1650 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1651 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1652 including twice per config file line now..
1653 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1654 and simplfy the rules file.
1655 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1656 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1657 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1659 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1660 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1664 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1667 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1671 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1674 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1678 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1681 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1685 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1688 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1689 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1690 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1691 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1692 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1693 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1697 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1700 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1701 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1702 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1707 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1710 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1711 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1716 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1719 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1720 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1721 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1726 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1729 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1730 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1731 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1735 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1741 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1748 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1751 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1752 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1753 unknown. Closes: #282924
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1757 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1764 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Spanish man page updates.
1767 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1772 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1778 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1781 * dh_desktop: reindent
1782 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1783 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1787 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1793 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1795 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1799 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1801 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1805 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1808 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1809 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1813 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1819 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1825 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1832 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1835 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1839 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1842 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1843 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1844 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1845 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1846 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1847 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1849 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1850 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1851 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1852 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1853 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1854 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1855 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1856 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1857 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1858 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1859 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1860 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1861 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1862 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1863 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1864 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1868 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1875 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1878 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1882 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1885 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1889 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1892 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1896 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1899 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1903 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1909 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1915 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1921 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1924 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1925 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1926 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1930 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1933 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1937 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1940 but occasionally right and necessary.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1944 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1947 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1948 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1949 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1950 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1951 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1955 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1958 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1960 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1961 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1962 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1963 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1964 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1965 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1966 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1967 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1968 postinst scripts for udebs.
1969 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1973 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1976 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1978 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1979 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1983 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1989 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1996 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2003 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2006 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2010 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2013 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2017 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2020 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2023 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2024 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2028 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2034 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2037 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2041 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2044 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2045 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2046 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2048 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2050 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2051 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2052 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2056 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2059 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2064 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2067 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2068 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2069 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2074 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2080 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2089 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2090 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2091 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2092 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2093 associated -dbg packages.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2097 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2100 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2107 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2111 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2114 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2118 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2121 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2126 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2129 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2133 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2136 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2141 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2144 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2148 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2152 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2153 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2154 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2155 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2156 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2157 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2158 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2159 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2160 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2161 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2165 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2168 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2173 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2176 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2177 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2181 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2184 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2185 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2190 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2193 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2197 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2200 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2204 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2207 out section number. Closes: #204731
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2211 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2218 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2224 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2230 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2233 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2234 removal. Closes: #204286
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2238 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2241 renaming. Closes: #203548
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2245 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2248 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2249 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2253 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2259 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2265 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2271 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2274 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2275 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2276 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2280 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2283 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2284 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2288 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2304 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2309 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2312 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2316 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2319 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2321 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2322 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2326 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2329 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2337 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2347 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2349 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2353 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2356 it break hard links (see #188663).
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2360 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2363 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2367 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2373 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2377 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2378 debconf-mergetemplates
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2382 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2385 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2389 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2392 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2396 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2399 * Update debhelper(1).
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2403 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2406 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2407 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2408 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2409 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2410 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2414 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2417 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2418 the shell. Closes: #178524
2419 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2423 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2426 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2430 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2433 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2437 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2440 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2441 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2442 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2443 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2448 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2451 files from installation.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2455 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2458 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2459 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2463 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2466 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2470 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2473 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2477 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2483 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2489 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2493 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2494 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2496 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2500 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2503 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2504 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2505 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2506 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2510 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2513 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2517 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2520 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2521 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2525 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2529 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2534 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2540 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2544 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2545 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2546 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2551 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2554 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2555 practice. Closes: #163303
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2559 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2565 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2572 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2575 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2577 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2578 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2579 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2580 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2581 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2585 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2588 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2593 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2599 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2606 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2609 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2620 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2626 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2632 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2639 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2642 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2643 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2644 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2645 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2650 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2656 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2663 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2666 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2667 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2671 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2674 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2675 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2676 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2677 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2678 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2682 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2685 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2687 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2692 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2695 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2699 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2702 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2703 right thing. Closes: #150644
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2707 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Stupid, evil typo.
2710 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2714 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2721 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2724 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2725 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2730 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2736 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2739 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2743 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2746 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2747 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2752 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2755 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2759 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2765 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2768 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2769 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2773 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2779 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Removing perl warning message.
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2785 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2788 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2789 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2790 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2791 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2792 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2793 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2794 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2795 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2799 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2805 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2812 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2815 debconf-mergetemplate.
2816 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2817 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2821 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2824 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2825 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2826 dh_install, which ...
2827 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2828 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2829 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2830 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2831 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2832 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2833 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2834 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2835 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2836 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2837 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2838 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2839 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2840 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2841 other minor changes.
2842 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2843 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2844 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2845 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2846 course there's -X ..)
2847 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2848 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2849 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2851 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2852 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2853 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2854 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2855 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2860 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2866 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2869 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2873 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2879 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2885 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2891 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2897 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2900 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2901 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2902 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2903 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2905 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2906 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2910 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2916 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2919 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2923 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2926 upset. Closes: #131322
2928 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2930 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2933 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2934 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2935 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2936 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2937 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2938 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2939 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2940 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2941 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2942 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2943 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2944 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2945 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2946 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2947 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2949 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2953 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2956 - Better indenting of generated code.
2957 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2961 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2965 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2966 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2967 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2968 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2969 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2970 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2971 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2975 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2978 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2982 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2985 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2986 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2987 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2988 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2989 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2990 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2991 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2992 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2993 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2994 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2995 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2996 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2997 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2998 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2999 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3004 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3010 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3013 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3014 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3018 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3021 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3022 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3026 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3032 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3035 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3036 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3037 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3038 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3039 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3044 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3050 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3053 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3057 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3060 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3065 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3071 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3074 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3078 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3084 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3088 Also some indentation fixes.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3092 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3095 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3096 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3097 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3098 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3099 Closes: #106514, #85520
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3103 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3109 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3115 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3121 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3127 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3133 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3136 change it in debhelper v4..
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3140 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3146 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3149 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3153 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3156 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3160 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3166 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3169 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3170 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3171 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3172 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3173 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3174 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3175 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3176 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3177 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3178 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3179 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3180 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3184 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3187 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3191 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3198 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3201 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3202 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3203 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3204 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3205 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3206 program those options go to. So, for example,
3207 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3208 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3209 something complex. Closes: #89311
3210 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3214 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3217 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3218 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3219 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3223 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3226 through loop. Closes: #98598
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3230 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Missing semi-colon.
3233 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3234 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3238 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3241 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3242 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3243 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3247 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3250 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3251 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3255 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3258 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3262 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3265 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3266 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3270 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3273 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3274 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3275 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3279 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3282 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3283 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3284 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3288 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3291 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3295 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3301 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3307 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3313 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3319 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3322 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3326 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3329 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3330 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3331 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3332 followed. Closes: #85483
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3336 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3338 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3339 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3340 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3344 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3347 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3348 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3349 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3350 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3351 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3352 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3353 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3354 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3355 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3356 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3357 Closes: #88464, #77743
3358 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3359 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3360 us to deal with that gracefully.
3361 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3363 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3364 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3365 a while, Closes: #51225
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3369 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3375 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3378 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3382 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3386 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3391 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3394 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3395 don't make packlist files.
3396 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3397 debhelper coding standards.
3398 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3399 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3403 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3406 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3410 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3413 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3414 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3415 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3416 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3417 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3418 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3419 but is mildly deprecated.
3420 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3421 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3422 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3423 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3424 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3425 switching to statoverrides..
3426 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3427 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3428 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3429 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3430 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3431 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3433 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3434 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3435 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3436 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3437 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3438 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3439 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3440 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3441 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3443 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3444 variable names, pod man pages).
3445 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3446 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3447 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3448 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3449 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3450 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3451 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3455 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3461 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3468 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3471 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3475 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3477 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3478 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3479 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3483 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3485 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3486 they were previously ignored.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3490 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3492 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3493 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3497 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3499 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3500 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3501 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3505 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3507 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3511 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3513 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3514 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3518 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3520 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3521 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3522 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3523 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3524 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3525 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3526 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3527 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3528 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3529 it is an obsolete program.
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3533 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3535 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3539 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3543 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3545 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3549 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3551 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3553 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3555 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3559 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3565 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * typo: Closes, #78567
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3571 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3577 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3583 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3586 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3587 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3588 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3589 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3590 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3594 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3597 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3602 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3605 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3606 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3607 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3608 backwards-compatability.
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3612 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3615 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3616 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3617 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3618 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3619 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3620 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3622 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3623 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3624 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3626 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3628 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3629 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3630 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3631 should now be raised to severity important..
3632 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3633 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3637 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3640 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3645 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3651 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3657 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3663 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3670 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3673 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3674 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3675 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3676 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3680 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3686 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3689 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3690 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3691 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3692 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3693 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3694 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3699 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3702 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3706 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3712 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3715 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3720 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3723 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3724 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3725 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3726 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3730 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3734 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3737 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3740 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3741 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3744 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3746 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3747 the TODO entry about it.
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3751 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3758 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3761 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3762 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3766 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3769 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3770 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3771 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3772 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3776 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3782 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3789 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3792 (this appears to be logal).
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3796 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3799 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3800 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3801 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3802 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3806 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3812 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3815 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3816 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3817 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3818 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3822 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3828 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3831 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3835 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3842 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3845 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3846 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3847 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3852 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3859 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3865 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3868 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3869 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3870 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3871 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3872 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3873 notice until v2 is complete.
3874 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3875 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3876 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3877 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3878 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3879 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3881 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3882 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3883 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3884 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3888 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3894 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3901 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3904 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3908 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3915 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3918 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3919 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3920 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3921 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3926 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3929 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3930 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3931 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3936 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3939 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3940 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3944 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3947 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3951 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3954 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3958 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3965 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3968 depend on the build and install targets.
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3972 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3975 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3979 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3986 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3992 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3998 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4001 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4002 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4003 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4004 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4005 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4006 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4008 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4009 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4010 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4011 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4012 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4013 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4014 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4018 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4024 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4030 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4033 right place. Closes: #55065
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4037 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4044 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4047 * Copyright date updates.
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4051 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4054 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4059 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4065 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4072 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4078 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4084 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4090 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4093 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4094 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4095 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4096 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4097 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4098 bits until all files have been registered.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4102 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * dh_installmanpages:
4105 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4106 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4107 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4108 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4109 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4110 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4111 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4112 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4113 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4114 otherwise change the result at all.
4116 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4117 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4118 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4119 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4120 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4125 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4131 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4134 act on files that don't exist.
4135 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4136 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4137 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4139 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4140 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4141 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4142 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4146 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4152 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4158 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4161 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4165 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4168 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4170 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4171 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4172 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4176 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4179 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4180 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4181 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4182 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4183 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4184 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4185 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4187 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4189 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4193 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4200 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4215 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4231 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4234 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4235 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4236 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4237 I made some changes, though:
4238 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4239 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4240 that is a clear violation of policy.
4241 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4242 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4243 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4244 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4245 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4246 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4247 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4248 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4249 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4251 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4255 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4264 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4268 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4271 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4272 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4283 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4290 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4293 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4294 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4295 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4296 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4297 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4298 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4299 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4309 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4313 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4314 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4318 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4320 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4324 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4327 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4331 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4334 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4335 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4339 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4341 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4346 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4350 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4357 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4358 for the dependancies to be generated.
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4362 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4365 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4369 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4372 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4373 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4374 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4379 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4382 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4383 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4387 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4402 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4406 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4412 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4415 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4416 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4417 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4418 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4419 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4420 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4421 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4422 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4423 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4424 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4425 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4426 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4430 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4433 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4434 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4436 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4437 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4438 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4439 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4440 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4441 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4443 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4444 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4448 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4451 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4455 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4462 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4465 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4470 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4473 for building debhelper.
4474 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4478 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4485 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4488 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4492 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4495 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4496 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4497 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4498 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4499 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4500 it's always available.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4504 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4507 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4508 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4509 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4513 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4516 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4517 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4521 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4527 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4530 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4540 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4543 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4544 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4545 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4549 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4552 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4557 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4560 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4561 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4563 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4564 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4568 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4583 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4590 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4591 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4593 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4597 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4600 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4601 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4602 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4606 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4609 things if CDPATH is set.
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4613 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4619 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4622 seems to make sense for the transition.
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4626 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4629 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4634 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4637 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4638 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4642 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4645 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4649 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4652 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4653 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4654 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4655 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4659 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4665 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4668 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4669 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4670 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4671 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4672 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4673 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4674 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4675 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4676 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4677 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4682 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4685 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4686 * README: mention doc/v2
4687 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4688 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4692 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4694 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4695 be using this script RSN.
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4699 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4702 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4703 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4704 more than 1 init script.
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4708 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4711 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4715 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * Changed perl version detection.
4718 * Changed call to find.
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4722 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4725 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4727 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4732 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * Really include dh_installpam.
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4738 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4741 * Wrote man page for same.
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4745 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4748 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4749 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4754 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4761 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4764 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4765 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4766 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4767 x bit was being set!
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4771 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4774 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4775 well. (Closes: 38900)
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4779 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4782 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4783 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4787 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4793 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4800 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4806 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4809 help from Julian Gilbey.
4810 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4811 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4812 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4813 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4814 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4815 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4816 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4821 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4827 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4834 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4840 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4846 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4849 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4853 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4855 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4856 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4860 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4863 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4867 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4873 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4876 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4880 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4886 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4892 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4895 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4896 may be deleted. (#35845)
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4900 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * Various man page enhancements.
4903 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4908 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4911 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4912 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4916 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4919 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4920 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4921 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4923 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4924 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4929 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4935 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * Another very minor typo fix.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4941 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * Very minor typo fix.
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4947 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4950 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4951 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4955 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4961 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4964 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4965 variables properly (#34850).
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4969 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4975 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4978 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4979 (automatically generated by build process).
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4983 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4985 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4989 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4992 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4993 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4995 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4999 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5002 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5006 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * README: minor typo fix.
5010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5012 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5014 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5015 leave it at that. :-)
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5019 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5025 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5031 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5034 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5035 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5036 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5040 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5043 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5047 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5050 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5054 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5057 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5058 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5059 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5060 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5064 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5067 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5068 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5069 Craig Small for spotting this.
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5073 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5076 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5077 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5081 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5087 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5090 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5094 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5096 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5097 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5098 working on the last version of debhelper.
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5102 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5105 being made. (#23255)
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5109 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5115 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5118 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5122 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5125 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5126 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5127 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5128 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5132 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5135 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5136 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5137 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5138 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5140 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5141 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5143 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5148 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5154 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5160 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5163 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5164 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5165 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5166 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5167 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5168 suidregister actually supports it.
5169 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5170 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5174 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5181 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5184 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5185 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5186 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5187 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5188 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5189 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5190 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5194 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5196 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5197 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5201 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5204 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5205 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5206 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5207 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5211 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5214 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5216 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5217 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5218 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5219 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5220 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5221 effect, either. (#30118)
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5225 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5231 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5234 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5235 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5239 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5245 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5248 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5249 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5250 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5251 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5255 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5258 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5259 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5263 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5269 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5272 packages, painlessly.
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5276 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5282 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5288 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5294 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * The perl conversion is complete.
5298 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5300 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5301 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5302 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5307 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5310 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5311 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5312 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5316 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5319 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5321 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5323 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5324 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5328 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5331 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5332 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5336 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5342 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5345 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5346 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5347 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5348 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5349 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5353 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5356 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5357 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5358 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5359 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5363 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5366 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5370 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5373 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5374 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5375 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5376 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5377 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5378 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5379 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5380 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5384 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5390 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5392 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5393 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5394 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5395 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5400 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5403 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5407 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5410 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5414 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5417 sections of shared libraries.
5418 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5419 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5420 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5421 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5422 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5423 things you don't want them to.
5424 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5425 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5429 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5432 shared libraries. (#26414)
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5436 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5438 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5439 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5440 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5441 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5445 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5449 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5451 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5452 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5453 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5454 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5455 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5459 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5462 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5466 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5469 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5470 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5475 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5478 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5482 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5485 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5486 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5487 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5488 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5489 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5491 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5492 remove debian/files properly.
5493 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5494 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5495 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5496 * Removed bogus menu file.
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5500 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5503 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5507 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5510 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5511 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5512 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5513 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5514 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5515 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5519 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5522 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5523 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5524 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5525 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5529 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5536 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5539 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5540 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5542 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5543 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5544 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5545 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5546 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5547 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5551 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5553 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5554 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5555 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5556 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5557 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5558 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5559 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5560 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5561 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5562 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5563 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5564 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5565 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5566 passed any switches.
5567 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5571 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5574 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5575 at all for a long while.
5576 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5577 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5578 large chunks in the process.
5579 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5580 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5581 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5586 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5589 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5591 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5596 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5599 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5600 that don't always have the same files in them.
5601 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5602 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5603 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5607 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5611 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5612 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5613 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5614 updating 27 man pages.
5615 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5616 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5617 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5618 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5619 programs act on. (#25247)
5621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5623 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5627 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5628 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5629 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5630 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5631 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5632 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5637 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5644 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5651 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5654 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5658 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5664 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5667 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5668 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5669 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5670 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5671 package by accident.
5672 * Is version 1.0 next?
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5676 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5679 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5680 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5684 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5687 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5688 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5689 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5690 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5691 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5693 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5698 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5701 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5702 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5706 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5709 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5713 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5716 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5717 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5722 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5728 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5731 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5732 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5737 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5743 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5745 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5746 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5747 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5748 past week. Thanks, guys!
5750 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5751 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5752 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5753 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5754 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5755 would do in the same situation.
5756 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5757 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5759 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5761 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5762 permissions changed.
5763 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5764 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5765 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5766 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5767 files are treated identically.
5768 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5769 * Minor man page fixes.
5770 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5771 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5772 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5776 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5779 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5780 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5781 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5782 use -X multiple times, too.
5783 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5784 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5788 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5791 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5792 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5796 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5799 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5803 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5806 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5807 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5808 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5809 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5810 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5811 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5812 shape if you're starting a new package.
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5816 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5819 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5823 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5826 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5827 because of missing symlinks.
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5831 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5837 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5840 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5841 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5842 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5843 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5844 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5846 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5847 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5851 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5853 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5854 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5855 to be changed after the fact :-)
5856 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5860 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5862 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5863 no version string after the -V.
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5867 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5869 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5870 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5875 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5878 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5882 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5885 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5886 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5887 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5888 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5889 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5890 I always welcome corrections!
5892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5894 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5896 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5900 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5902 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5903 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5904 * Documented this new switch.
5906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5908 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5910 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5911 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5912 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5913 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5914 no packages use the old behavior.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5918 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5921 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5922 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5926 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5929 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5933 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5939 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5941 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5942 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5946 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5949 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5950 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5951 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5955 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5961 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5963 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5964 into the source package by accident.
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5968 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5971 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5972 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5973 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5974 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5975 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5976 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5981 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5983 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5985 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5986 inspired to implement some of it.
5987 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5991 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5994 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5998 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6001 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6002 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6006 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6009 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6010 have done.) (#17598)
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6014 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6020 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6022 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6026 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6029 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6033 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6035 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6036 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6037 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6041 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6044 argument processor in perl.
6045 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6046 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6047 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6048 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6052 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6055 type directories. (#16933)
6056 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6057 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6058 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6059 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6060 are supported. (#16935)
6061 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6066 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6068 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6069 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6073 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6077 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6078 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6079 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6080 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6081 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6082 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6086 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6088 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6089 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6090 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6092 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6093 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6094 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6095 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6096 a given package, or -i or -a.
6097 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6098 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6099 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6100 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6101 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6102 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6103 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6104 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6105 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6107 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6108 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6109 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6113 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6116 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6117 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6122 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6124 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6125 does not have a section.
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6129 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6132 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6133 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6134 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6138 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6140 * Fixed typo #16215.
6142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6144 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6146 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6147 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6148 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6149 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6150 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6151 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6156 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6159 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6160 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6161 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6166 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6172 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6174 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6178 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6180 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6181 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6182 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6183 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6184 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6185 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6186 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6190 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6192 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6196 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6198 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6199 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6203 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6206 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6207 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6208 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6212 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6214 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6215 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6219 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6221 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6225 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6228 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6232 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6235 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6239 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6241 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6245 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6247 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6248 postinst, postrm, etc.
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6252 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6258 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6260 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6261 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6262 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6263 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6264 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6265 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6269 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6271 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6272 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6273 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6277 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6279 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6280 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6284 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6286 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6287 installing package files into.
6288 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6293 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6297 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6301 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6303 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6307 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6309 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6310 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6314 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6316 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6317 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6318 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6319 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6320 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6324 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6326 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6327 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6328 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6329 multiple binary packages.
6330 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6331 should rebuild them with this version.
6332 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6336 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6338 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6339 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6343 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6345 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6346 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6350 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6352 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6353 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6354 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6355 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6356 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6357 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6358 debian/README.debian.
6359 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6360 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6361 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6362 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6363 in a few situations.)
6365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6367 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6369 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6373 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6375 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6379 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6381 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6382 * Fixed several man pages.
6384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6386 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6388 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6389 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6390 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6394 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6396 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6397 is ready for general use.
6398 * Added man pages for all commands.
6399 * Multiple binary package support.
6400 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6401 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6402 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6404 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6405 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6406 auto-installed as parameters.
6407 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6409 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6412 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6413 the package build directory it is to act on.
6414 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6415 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6416 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6420 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6422 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6423 ready to replace debstd.
6425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400