1 debhelper (7.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
4 contributed by Modestas Vainius
5 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
6 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
7 that support it. Closes: #480577
8 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
9 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
10 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
12 - Adds support for cmake.
13 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:26:08 -0400
18 debhelper (7.2.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
20 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
22 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
23 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 May 2009 14:50:33 -0400
28 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
31 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
32 parameters. Closes: #527256
33 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
34 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
35 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
39 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
43 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
44 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
45 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
49 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
52 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
53 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
54 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
58 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
61 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
62 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
64 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
65 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
66 by triggers). Closes: #521181
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
70 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
74 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
78 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
81 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
82 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
83 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
84 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
89 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
95 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
98 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
99 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
100 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
101 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
102 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
104 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
105 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
106 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
107 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
108 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
109 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
113 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
116 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
117 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
118 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
119 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
120 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
122 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
126 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
128 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
132 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
134 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
135 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
136 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
137 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
138 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
139 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
140 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
141 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
142 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
143 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
144 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
148 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
150 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
151 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
153 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
154 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
155 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
156 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
158 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
159 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
163 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
165 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
166 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
167 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
168 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
169 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
170 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
171 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
173 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
174 that uses them. Affected options are:
175 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
176 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
177 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
178 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
179 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
180 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
181 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
182 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
183 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
184 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
185 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
186 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
190 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
197 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
203 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
205 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
206 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
208 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
209 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
210 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
211 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
212 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
214 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
216 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
217 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
218 rules (see bug #509756).
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
222 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
228 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
229 * Typo. Closes: #493062
230 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
231 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
235 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
238 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
239 empty files. Closes: #490937
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
243 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
249 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
256 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
259 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
260 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
261 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
262 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
267 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
269 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
270 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
271 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
272 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
276 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
279 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
280 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
281 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
282 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
283 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
287 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
289 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
294 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
296 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
297 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
298 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
299 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
300 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
301 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
302 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
303 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
304 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
305 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
309 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
312 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
313 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
314 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
315 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
317 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
318 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
319 breaking backwards compatability.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
323 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
326 message in perl 5.10.
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
330 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
336 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Convert copyright file to new format.
339 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
343 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
345 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
346 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
350 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
353 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
354 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
355 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
356 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
357 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
358 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
359 logging by dh_listpackages.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
363 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
366 run and there are no packages of that type.
367 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
368 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
369 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
370 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
372 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
373 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
377 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
379 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
380 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
381 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
385 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
388 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
389 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
391 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
392 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
393 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
394 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
395 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
396 planned but not yet implemented.)
397 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
398 if the Makefile has such a target.
399 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
400 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
401 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
402 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
403 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
404 but not yet implemented.)
405 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
406 recommended default, especially when using dh.
407 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
408 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
409 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
411 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
413 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
414 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
416 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
417 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
418 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
423 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
426 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
427 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
431 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
433 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
434 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
435 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
439 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
441 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
445 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
451 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
454 just those installed by the program.
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
458 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
460 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
461 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
462 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
466 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
469 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
470 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
471 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
472 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
476 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
479 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
480 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
484 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
487 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
488 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
492 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
495 with policy. Closes: #461392
496 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
497 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
498 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
499 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
500 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
504 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
507 Closes: #460340, #460351
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
511 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
514 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
515 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
516 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
517 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
521 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
524 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
525 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
526 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
527 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
528 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
529 package build directory won't work.
530 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
531 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
532 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
533 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
534 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
535 mode. Closes: #459426
536 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
541 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
544 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
548 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
552 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
553 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
554 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
555 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
556 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
557 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
561 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
563 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
564 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
565 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
566 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
567 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
571 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
574 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
575 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
576 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
577 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
578 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
582 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
585 debian/package.triggers files.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
589 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
592 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
596 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
599 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
600 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
601 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
602 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
607 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
610 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
614 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
617 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
618 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
620 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
625 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
629 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
630 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
631 * Typo. Closes: #441272
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
635 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
642 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
649 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
652 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
654 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
655 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
656 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
658 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
659 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
660 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
664 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
667 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
668 * Update urls to web page.
669 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
671 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
672 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
676 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
679 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
680 - typo in alternatives call
681 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
683 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
684 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
688 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
691 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
696 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
698 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
702 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
708 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
711 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
713 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
714 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
715 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
716 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
717 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
718 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
719 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
720 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
721 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
722 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
723 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
727 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
730 package install. Closes: #415717
731 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
732 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
733 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
734 script and then remove the python files.
735 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
736 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
737 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
738 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
739 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
740 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
741 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
742 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
743 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
744 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
745 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
746 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
747 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
751 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Correct typo in french translation
757 * Typo. Closes: #400571
758 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
760 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
762 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
763 Closes: #406921, #381940
764 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
766 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
767 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
768 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
769 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
770 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
771 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
772 specified). Closes: #381851
773 * Misc minor changes.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
777 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
784 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
785 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
789 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
795 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
796 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
799 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
800 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
802 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
803 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
804 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
805 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
809 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
812 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
815 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
819 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
825 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
831 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
832 a difficult situation.
833 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
834 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
835 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
836 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
837 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
838 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
839 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
840 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
841 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
842 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
846 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Non-maintainer upload.
849 * Update of dh_python
850 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
851 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
853 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
854 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
855 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
856 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
857 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
859 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
861 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Non-maintainer upload.
864 * Update of dh_python
865 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
866 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
867 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
868 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
869 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
870 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
871 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
872 specific python version. Closes: #373853
873 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
874 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
876 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
877 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
878 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
879 the not too-distant future).
880 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
881 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
882 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
883 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
884 thus made the build fail.
886 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
888 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Non-maintainer upload.
891 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
893 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
895 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
898 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
899 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
900 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
901 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
902 package. Closes: #301424
903 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
904 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
905 fonts). Closes: #372686
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
909 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
915 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
916 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
917 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
918 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
919 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
920 above, but already depends on that.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
924 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
927 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
928 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
929 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
930 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
931 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
935 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
941 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
947 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
948 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
952 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
955 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
959 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
963 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
964 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
965 new version (0.24.1).
966 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
967 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
970 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
971 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
972 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
973 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
974 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
975 new directory on their own.
976 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
977 * Fix broken directory removal code.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
981 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
984 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
985 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
986 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
987 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
991 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
994 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
995 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
996 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
997 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
998 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1002 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1008 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1012 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1013 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1017 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1018 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1022 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1024 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1025 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1027 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1028 ignored. Closes: #337664
1030 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1035 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1041 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1046 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1047 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1048 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1049 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1050 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1051 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1052 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1056 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1059 version. Closes: #350607
1060 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1061 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1062 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1063 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1067 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1070 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1071 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1072 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1076 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1083 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1089 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1092 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1096 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1099 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1100 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1101 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1102 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1103 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1104 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1108 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1111 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1112 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1117 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1120 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1124 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1127 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1131 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1134 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1135 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1136 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1137 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1138 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1139 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1143 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1147 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1148 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1149 link. Closes: #346405
1150 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1152 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1153 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1154 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1155 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1156 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1157 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1158 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1162 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1169 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1175 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1178 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1182 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1185 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1190 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1194 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1195 installed. Closes: #342033
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1199 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1202 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1203 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1204 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1209 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1215 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1221 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1225 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1226 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1227 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1231 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1234 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1239 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1246 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1252 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1255 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1256 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1257 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1258 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1259 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1260 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1261 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1263 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1267 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1270 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1271 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1275 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1278 in standard man dirs.
1279 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1283 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1289 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1292 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1297 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1304 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1311 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1314 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1315 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1319 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1322 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1323 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1324 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1326 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1328 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1334 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1340 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1343 mode. Closes: #324161
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1347 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1350 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1351 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1352 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1353 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1358 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1361 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1362 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1363 is necesary for sanity.
1364 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1365 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1370 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1372 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1373 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1377 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1380 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1384 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1390 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1393 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1394 released, so use at your own risk.
1395 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1396 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1398 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1399 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1400 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1401 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1402 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1403 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1404 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1405 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1406 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1407 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1408 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1409 including twice per config file line now..
1410 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1411 and simplfy the rules file.
1412 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1413 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1414 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1416 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1417 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1421 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1424 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1428 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1431 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1435 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1438 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1442 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1445 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1446 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1447 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1448 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1449 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1450 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1454 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1457 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1458 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1459 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1464 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1467 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1468 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1473 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1476 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1477 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1478 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1483 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1486 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1487 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1488 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1492 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1498 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1505 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1508 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1509 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1510 unknown. Closes: #282924
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1514 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1521 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Spanish man page updates.
1524 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1529 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1535 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1538 * dh_desktop: reindent
1539 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1540 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1544 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1550 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1552 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1556 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1558 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1562 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1565 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1566 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1570 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1576 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1582 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1589 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1592 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1596 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1599 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1600 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1601 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1602 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1603 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1604 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1606 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1607 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1608 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1609 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1610 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1611 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1612 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1613 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1614 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1615 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1616 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1617 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1618 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1619 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1620 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1621 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1625 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1632 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1635 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1639 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1642 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1646 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1649 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1653 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1656 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1660 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1666 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1672 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1678 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1681 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1682 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1683 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1687 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1690 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1694 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1697 but occasionally right and necessary.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1701 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1704 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1705 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1706 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1707 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1708 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1712 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1715 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1717 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1718 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1719 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1720 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1721 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1722 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1723 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1724 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1725 postinst scripts for udebs.
1726 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1730 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1733 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1735 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1736 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1740 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1746 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1753 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1760 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1763 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1767 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1770 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1774 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1777 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1780 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1781 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1785 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1791 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1794 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1798 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1801 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1802 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1803 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1805 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1807 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1808 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1809 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1813 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1816 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1821 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1824 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1825 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1826 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1831 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1837 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1846 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1847 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1848 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1849 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1850 associated -dbg packages.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1854 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1857 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1861 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1864 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1868 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1871 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1875 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1878 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1883 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1886 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1890 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1893 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1898 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1901 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1909 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1910 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1911 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1912 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1913 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1914 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1915 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1916 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1917 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1918 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1925 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1930 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1933 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1934 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1938 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1941 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1942 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1950 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1957 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1961 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1964 out section number. Closes: #204731
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1968 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1975 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1981 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1987 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1990 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1991 removal. Closes: #204286
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1995 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1998 renaming. Closes: #203548
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2002 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2005 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2006 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2010 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2016 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2022 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2028 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2031 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2032 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2033 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2037 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2040 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2041 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2045 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2051 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2058 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2061 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2066 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2069 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2073 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2076 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2078 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2079 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2083 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2086 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2091 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2094 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2098 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2106 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2110 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2113 it break hard links (see #188663).
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2117 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2120 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2124 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2130 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2134 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2135 debconf-mergetemplates
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2139 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2142 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2146 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2149 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2153 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2156 * Update debhelper(1).
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2160 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2163 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2164 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2165 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2166 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2167 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2171 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2174 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2175 the shell. Closes: #178524
2176 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2180 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2183 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2187 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2190 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2194 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2197 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2198 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2199 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2200 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2205 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2208 files from installation.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2212 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2215 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2216 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2220 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2223 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2227 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2230 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2234 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2240 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2246 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2250 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2251 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2253 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2257 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2260 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2261 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2262 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2263 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2267 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2270 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2274 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2277 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2278 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2282 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2286 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2291 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2297 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2301 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2302 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2303 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2308 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2311 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2312 practice. Closes: #163303
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2316 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2329 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2332 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2334 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2335 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2336 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2337 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2338 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2345 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2350 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2356 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2363 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2366 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2371 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2377 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2383 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2389 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2396 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2399 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2400 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2401 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2402 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2407 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2413 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2420 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2423 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2424 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2428 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2431 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2432 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2433 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2434 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2435 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2439 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2442 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2444 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2449 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2452 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2459 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2460 right thing. Closes: #150644
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2464 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Stupid, evil typo.
2467 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2471 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2478 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2481 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2482 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2487 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2493 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2496 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2500 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2503 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2504 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2509 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2512 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2516 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2525 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2526 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2530 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2536 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Removing perl warning message.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2542 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2545 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2546 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2547 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2548 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2549 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2550 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2551 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2552 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2556 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2562 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2569 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2572 debconf-mergetemplate.
2573 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2574 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2578 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2581 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2582 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2583 dh_install, which ...
2584 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2585 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2586 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2587 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2588 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2589 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2590 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2591 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2592 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2593 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2594 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2595 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2596 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2597 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2598 other minor changes.
2599 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2600 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2601 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2602 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2603 course there's -X ..)
2604 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2605 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2606 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2608 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2609 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2610 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2611 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2612 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2617 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2623 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2626 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2630 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2636 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2642 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2648 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2654 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2657 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2658 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2659 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2660 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2662 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2663 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2667 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2673 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2676 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2680 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2683 upset. Closes: #131322
2685 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2687 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2690 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2691 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2692 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2693 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2694 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2695 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2696 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2697 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2698 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2699 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2700 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2701 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2702 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2703 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2704 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2706 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2710 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2713 - Better indenting of generated code.
2714 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2718 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2722 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2723 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2724 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2725 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2726 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2727 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2728 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2732 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2735 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2739 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2742 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2743 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2744 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2745 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2746 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2747 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2748 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2749 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2750 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2751 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2752 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2753 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2754 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2755 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2756 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2761 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2767 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2770 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2771 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2775 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2778 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2779 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2783 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2789 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2792 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2793 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2794 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2795 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2796 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2801 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2807 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2810 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2814 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2817 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2822 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2828 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2831 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2835 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2841 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2845 Also some indentation fixes.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2849 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2852 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2853 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2854 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2855 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2856 Closes: #106514, #85520
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2860 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2866 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2872 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2878 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2884 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2890 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2893 change it in debhelper v4..
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2897 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2903 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2906 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2910 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2913 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2917 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2923 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2926 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2927 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2928 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2929 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2930 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2931 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2932 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2933 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2934 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2935 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2936 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2937 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2941 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2944 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2948 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2955 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2958 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2959 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2960 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2961 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2962 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2963 program those options go to. So, for example,
2964 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2965 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2966 something complex. Closes: #89311
2967 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2971 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2974 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2975 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2976 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2980 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2983 through loop. Closes: #98598
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2987 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * Missing semi-colon.
2990 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2991 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2995 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2998 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2999 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3000 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3004 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3007 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3008 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3012 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3015 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3019 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3022 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3023 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3027 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3030 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3031 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3032 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3036 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3039 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3040 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3041 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3045 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3048 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3052 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3058 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3064 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3070 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3076 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3079 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3083 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3086 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3087 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3088 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3089 followed. Closes: #85483
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3093 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3095 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3096 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3097 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3101 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3104 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3105 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3106 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3107 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3108 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3109 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3110 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3111 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3112 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3113 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3114 Closes: #88464, #77743
3115 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3116 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3117 us to deal with that gracefully.
3118 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3120 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3121 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3122 a while, Closes: #51225
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3126 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3132 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3135 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3139 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3143 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3148 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3151 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3152 don't make packlist files.
3153 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3154 debhelper coding standards.
3155 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3156 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3160 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3163 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3167 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3170 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3171 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3172 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3173 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3174 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3175 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3176 but is mildly deprecated.
3177 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3178 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3179 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3180 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3181 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3182 switching to statoverrides..
3183 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3184 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3185 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3186 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3187 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3188 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3190 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3191 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3192 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3193 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3194 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3195 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3196 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3197 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3198 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3200 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3201 variable names, pod man pages).
3202 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3203 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3204 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3205 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3206 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3207 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3208 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3212 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3218 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3225 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3228 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3232 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3234 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3235 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3236 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3240 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3242 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3243 they were previously ignored.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3247 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3249 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3250 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3254 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3256 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3257 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3258 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3262 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3264 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3268 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3270 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3271 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3275 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3277 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3278 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3279 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3280 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3281 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3282 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3283 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3284 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3285 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3286 it is an obsolete program.
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3290 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3292 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3296 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3300 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3302 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3306 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3308 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3310 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3312 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3316 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3322 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * typo: Closes, #78567
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3328 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3334 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3340 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3343 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3344 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3345 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3346 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3347 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3351 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3354 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3359 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3362 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3363 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3364 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3365 backwards-compatability.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3369 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3372 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3373 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3374 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3375 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3376 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3377 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3379 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3380 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3381 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3383 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3385 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3386 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3387 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3388 should now be raised to severity important..
3389 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3390 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3394 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3397 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3402 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3408 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3414 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3420 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3427 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3430 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3431 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3432 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3433 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3437 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3443 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3446 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3447 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3448 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3449 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3450 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3451 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3456 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3459 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3463 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3469 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3472 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3477 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3480 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3481 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3482 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3483 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3487 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3491 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3494 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3497 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3498 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3501 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3503 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3504 the TODO entry about it.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3508 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3515 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3518 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3519 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3523 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3526 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3527 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3528 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3529 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3533 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3539 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3546 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3549 (this appears to be logal).
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3553 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3556 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3557 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3558 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3559 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3563 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3569 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3572 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3573 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3574 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3575 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3579 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3585 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3588 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3592 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3599 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3602 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3603 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3604 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3609 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3616 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3622 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3625 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3626 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3627 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3628 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3629 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3630 notice until v2 is complete.
3631 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3632 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3633 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3634 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3635 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3636 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3638 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3639 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3640 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3641 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3645 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3651 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3658 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3661 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3665 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3672 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3675 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3676 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3677 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3678 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3683 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3686 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3687 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3688 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3693 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3696 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3697 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3701 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3704 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3708 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3711 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3715 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3722 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3725 depend on the build and install targets.
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3729 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3732 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3736 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3743 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3749 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3755 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3758 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3759 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3760 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3761 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3762 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3763 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3765 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3766 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3767 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3768 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3769 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3770 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3771 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3775 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3781 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3787 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3790 right place. Closes: #55065
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3794 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3801 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3804 * Copyright date updates.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3808 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3811 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3816 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3822 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3829 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3835 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3841 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3847 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3850 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3851 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3852 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3853 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3854 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3855 bits until all files have been registered.
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3859 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * dh_installmanpages:
3862 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3863 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3864 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3865 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3866 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3867 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3868 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3869 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3870 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3871 otherwise change the result at all.
3873 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3874 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3875 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3876 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3877 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3882 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3888 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3891 act on files that don't exist.
3892 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3893 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3894 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3896 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3897 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3898 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3899 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3903 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3909 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3915 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3918 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3922 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3925 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3927 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3928 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3929 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3933 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3936 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3937 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3938 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3939 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3940 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3941 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3942 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3944 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3946 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3950 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3957 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3963 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3969 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3972 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3976 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3982 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3988 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3991 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3992 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3993 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3994 I made some changes, though:
3995 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3996 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3997 that is a clear violation of policy.
3998 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3999 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4000 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4001 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4002 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4003 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4004 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4005 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4006 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4008 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4012 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4018 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4021 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4025 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4028 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4029 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4034 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4040 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4047 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4050 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4051 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4052 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4053 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4054 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4055 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4056 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4066 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4070 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4071 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4075 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4081 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4084 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4088 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4091 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4092 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4096 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4098 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4103 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4107 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4111 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4114 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4115 for the dependancies to be generated.
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4119 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4122 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4126 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4129 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4130 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4131 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4139 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4140 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4144 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4156 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4159 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4163 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4169 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4172 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4173 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4174 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4175 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4176 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4177 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4178 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4179 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4180 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4181 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4182 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4183 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4190 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4191 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4193 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4194 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4195 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4196 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4197 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4198 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4200 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4201 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4205 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4208 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4222 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4227 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4230 for building debhelper.
4231 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4235 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4242 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4245 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4249 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4252 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4253 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4254 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4255 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4256 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4257 it's always available.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4264 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4265 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4266 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4270 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4273 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4274 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4278 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4284 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4287 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4291 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4297 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4300 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4301 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4302 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4306 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4309 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4314 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4317 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4318 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4320 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4321 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4325 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4331 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4340 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4344 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4347 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4348 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4350 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4357 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4358 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4359 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4363 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4366 things if CDPATH is set.
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4370 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4376 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4379 seems to make sense for the transition.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4383 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4386 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4391 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4394 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4395 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4402 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4406 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4409 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4410 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4411 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4412 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4416 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4422 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4425 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4426 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4427 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4428 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4429 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4430 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4431 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4432 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4433 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4434 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4439 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4442 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4443 * README: mention doc/v2
4444 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4445 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4449 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4451 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4452 be using this script RSN.
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4456 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4459 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4460 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4461 more than 1 init script.
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4465 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4468 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4472 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * Changed perl version detection.
4475 * Changed call to find.
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4479 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4482 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4484 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4489 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * Really include dh_installpam.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4495 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4498 * Wrote man page for same.
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4502 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4505 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4506 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4511 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4518 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4521 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4522 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4523 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4524 x bit was being set!
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4528 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4531 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4532 well. (Closes: 38900)
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4536 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4539 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4540 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4544 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4550 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4557 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4563 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4566 help from Julian Gilbey.
4567 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4568 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4569 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4570 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4571 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4572 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4573 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4578 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4584 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4586 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4591 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4597 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4603 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4606 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4610 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4613 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4617 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4620 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4624 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4630 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4633 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4637 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4643 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4649 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4652 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4653 may be deleted. (#35845)
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4657 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * Various man page enhancements.
4660 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4665 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4668 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4669 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4673 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4676 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4677 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4678 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4680 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4681 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4686 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4692 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * Another very minor typo fix.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4698 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * Very minor typo fix.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4704 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4707 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4708 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4712 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4718 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4720 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4721 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4722 variables properly (#34850).
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4726 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4732 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4735 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4736 (automatically generated by build process).
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4740 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4742 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4746 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4749 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4750 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4752 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4756 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4759 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4763 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * README: minor typo fix.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4769 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4772 leave it at that. :-)
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4776 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4782 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4788 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4791 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4792 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4793 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4797 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4800 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4804 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4807 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4811 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4814 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4815 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4816 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4817 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4821 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4824 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4825 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4826 Craig Small for spotting this.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4830 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4833 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4834 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4838 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4844 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4847 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4851 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4853 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4854 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4855 working on the last version of debhelper.
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4859 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4862 being made. (#23255)
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4866 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4872 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4875 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4879 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4882 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4883 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4884 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4885 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4889 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4892 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4893 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4894 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4895 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4897 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4898 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4900 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4905 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4911 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4913 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4917 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4920 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4921 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4922 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4923 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4924 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4925 suidregister actually supports it.
4926 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4927 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4931 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4938 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4941 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4942 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4943 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4944 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4945 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4946 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4947 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4951 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4953 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4954 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4958 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4961 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4962 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4963 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4964 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4968 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4971 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4973 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4974 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4975 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4976 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4977 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4978 effect, either. (#30118)
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4982 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4988 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4991 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4992 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4996 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5002 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5005 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5006 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5007 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5008 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5012 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5014 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5015 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5016 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5020 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5026 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5029 packages, painlessly.
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5033 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5039 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5045 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5051 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * The perl conversion is complete.
5055 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5057 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5058 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5059 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5064 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5067 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5068 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5069 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5073 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5076 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5078 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5080 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5081 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5085 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5088 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5089 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5093 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5095 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5099 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5102 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5103 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5104 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5105 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5106 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5110 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5113 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5114 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5115 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5116 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5120 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5123 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5127 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5130 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5131 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5132 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5133 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5134 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5135 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5136 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5137 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5141 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5147 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5149 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5150 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5151 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5152 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5157 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5160 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5164 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5167 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5171 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5174 sections of shared libraries.
5175 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5176 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5177 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5178 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5179 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5180 things you don't want them to.
5181 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5182 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5186 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5189 shared libraries. (#26414)
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5193 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5195 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5196 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5197 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5198 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5202 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5206 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5208 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5209 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5210 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5211 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5212 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5216 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5219 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5223 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5226 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5227 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5232 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5235 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5239 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5242 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5243 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5244 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5245 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5246 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5248 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5249 remove debian/files properly.
5250 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5251 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5252 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5253 * Removed bogus menu file.
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5257 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5260 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5264 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5267 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5268 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5269 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5270 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5271 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5272 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5276 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5279 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5280 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5281 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5282 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5286 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5293 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5296 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5297 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5299 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5300 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5301 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5302 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5303 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5304 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5308 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5311 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5312 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5313 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5314 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5315 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5316 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5317 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5318 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5319 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5320 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5321 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5322 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5323 passed any switches.
5324 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5328 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5331 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5332 at all for a long while.
5333 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5334 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5335 large chunks in the process.
5336 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5337 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5338 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5343 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5346 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5348 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5353 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5356 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5357 that don't always have the same files in them.
5358 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5359 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5360 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5364 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5368 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5369 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5370 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5371 updating 27 man pages.
5372 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5373 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5374 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5375 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5376 programs act on. (#25247)
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5380 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5384 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5385 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5386 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5387 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5388 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5389 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5394 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5401 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5408 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5411 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5415 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5421 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5424 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5425 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5426 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5427 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5428 package by accident.
5429 * Is version 1.0 next?
5431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5433 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5435 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5436 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5437 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5441 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5444 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5445 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5446 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5447 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5448 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5450 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5455 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5458 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5459 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5463 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5466 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5470 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5473 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5474 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5479 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5485 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5487 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5488 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5489 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5494 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5500 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5503 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5504 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5505 past week. Thanks, guys!
5507 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5508 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5509 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5510 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5511 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5512 would do in the same situation.
5513 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5514 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5516 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5518 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5519 permissions changed.
5520 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5521 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5522 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5523 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5524 files are treated identically.
5525 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5526 * Minor man page fixes.
5527 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5528 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5529 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5533 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5536 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5537 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5538 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5539 use -X multiple times, too.
5540 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5541 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5545 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5548 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5549 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5553 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5556 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5560 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5563 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5564 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5565 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5566 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5567 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5568 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5569 shape if you're starting a new package.
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5573 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5576 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5580 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5583 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5584 because of missing symlinks.
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5588 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5594 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5597 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5598 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5599 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5600 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5601 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5603 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5604 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5608 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5610 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5611 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5612 to be changed after the fact :-)
5613 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5617 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5619 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5620 no version string after the -V.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5624 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5626 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5627 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5632 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5634 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5635 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5639 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5642 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5643 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5644 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5645 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5646 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5647 I always welcome corrections!
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5651 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5657 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5660 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5661 * Documented this new switch.
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5665 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5668 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5669 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5670 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5671 no packages use the old behavior.
5673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5675 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5677 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5678 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5679 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5683 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5686 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5690 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5696 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5699 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5703 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5706 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5707 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5708 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5712 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5718 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5721 into the source package by accident.
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5725 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5728 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5729 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5730 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5731 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5732 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5733 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5738 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5742 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5743 inspired to implement some of it.
5744 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5748 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5751 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5755 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5758 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5759 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5763 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5765 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5766 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5767 have done.) (#17598)
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5771 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5777 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5783 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5786 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5790 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5793 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5794 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5798 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5801 argument processor in perl.
5802 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5803 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5804 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5805 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5809 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5812 type directories. (#16933)
5813 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5814 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5815 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5816 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5817 are supported. (#16935)
5818 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5823 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5826 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5830 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5834 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5835 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5836 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5837 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5838 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5839 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5843 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5846 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5847 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5849 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5850 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5851 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5852 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5853 a given package, or -i or -a.
5854 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5855 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5856 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5857 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5858 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5859 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5860 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5861 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5862 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5864 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5865 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5866 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5870 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5873 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5874 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5879 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5881 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5882 does not have a section.
5884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5886 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5888 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5889 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5890 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5891 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5895 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5897 * Fixed typo #16215.
5899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5901 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5903 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5904 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5905 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5906 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5907 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5908 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5913 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5916 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5917 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5918 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5923 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5925 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5929 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5931 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5935 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5937 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5938 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5939 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5940 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5941 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5942 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5943 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5947 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5953 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5956 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5960 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5962 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5963 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5964 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5965 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5969 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5971 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5972 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5976 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5978 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5982 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5984 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5985 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5989 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5992 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5996 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6002 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6005 postinst, postrm, etc.
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6009 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6015 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6018 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6019 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6020 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6021 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6022 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6026 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6029 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6030 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6034 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6037 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6041 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6044 installing package files into.
6045 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6050 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6054 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6058 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6064 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6066 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6067 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6071 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6073 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6074 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6075 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6076 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6077 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6081 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6083 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6084 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6085 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6086 multiple binary packages.
6087 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6088 should rebuild them with this version.
6089 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6093 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6096 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6100 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6102 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6103 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6107 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6110 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6111 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6112 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6113 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6114 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6115 debian/README.debian.
6116 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6117 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6118 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6119 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6120 in a few situations.)
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6124 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6130 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6132 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6136 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6138 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6139 * Fixed several man pages.
6141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6143 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6145 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6146 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6147 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6151 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6153 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6154 is ready for general use.
6155 * Added man pages for all commands.
6156 * Multiple binary package support.
6157 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6158 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6159 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6161 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6162 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6163 auto-installed as parameters.
6164 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6166 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6169 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6170 the package build directory it is to act on.
6171 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6172 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6173 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6177 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6179 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6180 ready to replace debstd.
6182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400