1 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
5 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
6 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
7 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
8 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
9 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
10 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
14 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
17 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
18 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
19 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
20 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
24 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
27 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
28 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
29 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
30 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
31 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
35 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
38 debian/package.triggers files.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
42 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
45 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
49 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
52 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
53 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
54 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
55 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
60 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
63 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
67 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
70 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
71 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
73 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
78 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
82 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
83 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
84 * Typo. Closes: #441272
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
88 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
90 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
95 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
102 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
105 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
107 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
108 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
109 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
111 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
112 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
113 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
117 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
120 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
121 * Update urls to web page.
122 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
124 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
125 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
129 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
132 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
133 - typo in alternatives call
134 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
136 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
137 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
141 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
144 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
149 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
155 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
161 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
164 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
166 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
167 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
168 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
169 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
170 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
171 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
172 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
173 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
174 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
175 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
176 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
180 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
183 package install. Closes: #415717
184 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
185 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
186 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
187 script and then remove the python files.
188 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
189 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
190 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
191 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
192 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
193 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
194 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
195 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
196 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
197 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
198 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
199 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
200 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
204 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Correct typo in french translation
210 * Typo. Closes: #400571
211 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
213 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
215 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
216 Closes: #406921, #381940
217 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
219 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
220 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
221 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
222 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
223 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
224 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
225 specified). Closes: #381851
226 * Misc minor changes.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
230 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
237 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
238 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
242 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
248 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
249 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
252 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
253 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
255 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
256 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
257 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
258 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
262 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
265 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
268 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
272 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
278 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
281 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
284 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
285 a difficult situation.
286 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
287 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
288 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
289 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
290 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
291 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
292 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
293 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
294 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
295 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
299 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Non-maintainer upload.
302 * Update of dh_python
303 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
304 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
306 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
307 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
308 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
309 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
310 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
312 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
314 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Non-maintainer upload.
317 * Update of dh_python
318 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
319 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
320 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
321 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
322 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
323 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
324 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
325 specific python version. Closes: #373853
326 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
327 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
329 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
330 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
331 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
332 the not too-distant future).
333 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
334 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
335 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
336 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
337 thus made the build fail.
339 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
341 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Non-maintainer upload.
344 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
346 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
348 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
351 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
352 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
353 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
354 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
355 package. Closes: #301424
356 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
357 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
358 fonts). Closes: #372686
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
362 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
368 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
369 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
370 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
371 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
372 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
373 above, but already depends on that.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
377 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
380 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
381 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
382 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
383 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
384 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
388 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
394 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
400 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
401 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
405 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
407 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
408 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
412 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
416 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
417 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
418 new version (0.24.1).
419 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
420 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
423 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
424 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
425 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
426 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
427 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
428 new directory on their own.
429 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
430 * Fix broken directory removal code.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
434 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
437 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
438 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
439 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
440 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
444 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
447 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
448 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
449 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
450 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
451 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
455 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
461 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Typo. Closes: #358904
465 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
466 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
470 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
471 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
475 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
477 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
478 || exit 0 instead of the intended
480 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
481 ignored. Closes: #337664
483 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
488 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
494 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
499 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
500 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
501 the dh_installdebconf manpage
502 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
503 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
504 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
505 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
509 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
511 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
512 version. Closes: #350607
513 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
514 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
515 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
516 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
520 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
523 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
524 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
525 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
529 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
536 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Minor bug fix from last release.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
542 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
545 language guessing. Closes: #193221
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
549 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
552 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
553 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
554 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
555 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
556 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
557 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
561 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
564 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
565 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
570 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
573 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
577 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
580 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
584 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
587 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
588 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
589 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
590 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
591 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
592 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
596 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
599 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
600 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
601 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
602 link. Closes: #346405
603 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
606 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
607 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
608 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
609 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
610 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
611 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
615 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
622 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
624 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
628 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
631 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
635 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
638 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
643 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
647 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
648 installed. Closes: #342033
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
652 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
655 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
656 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
657 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
662 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
668 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
674 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
678 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
679 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
680 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
684 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
687 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
692 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
699 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
705 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
707 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
708 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
709 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
710 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
711 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
712 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
713 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
714 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
716 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
720 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
723 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
724 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
728 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
731 in standard man dirs.
732 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
736 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
742 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
745 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
750 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
757 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
764 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
767 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
768 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
772 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
774 * NMU with maintainer approval.
775 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
776 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
777 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
779 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
781 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
787 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
793 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
796 mode. Closes: #324161
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
800 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
803 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
804 behavior change. Closes: #249815
805 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
806 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
811 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
814 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
815 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
816 is necesary for sanity.
817 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
818 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
823 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
825 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
826 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
830 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
833 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
837 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
843 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
846 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
847 released, so use at your own risk.
848 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
849 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
851 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
852 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
853 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
854 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
855 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
856 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
857 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
858 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
859 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
860 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
861 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
862 including twice per config file line now..
863 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
864 and simplfy the rules file.
865 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
866 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
867 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
869 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
870 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
874 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
877 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
881 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
884 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
888 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
890 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
891 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
895 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
898 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
899 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
900 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
901 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
902 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
903 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
907 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
910 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
911 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
912 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
917 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
920 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
921 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
926 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
929 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
930 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
931 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
936 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
939 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
940 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
941 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
945 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
951 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
958 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
961 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
962 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
963 unknown. Closes: #282924
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
967 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
974 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Spanish man page updates.
977 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
982 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
988 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
991 * dh_desktop: reindent
992 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
993 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
997 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1003 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1005 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1009 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1011 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1015 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1018 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1019 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1023 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1029 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1035 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1042 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1045 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1049 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1052 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1053 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1054 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1055 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1056 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1057 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1059 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1060 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1061 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1062 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1063 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1064 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1065 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1066 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1067 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1068 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1069 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1070 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1071 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1072 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1073 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1074 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1078 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1085 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1088 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1092 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1095 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1099 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1102 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1106 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1109 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1113 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1119 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1125 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1131 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1134 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1135 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1136 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1140 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1143 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1147 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1150 but occasionally right and necessary.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1154 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1157 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1158 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1159 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1160 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1161 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1165 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1168 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1170 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1171 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1172 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1173 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1174 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1175 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1176 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1177 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1178 postinst scripts for udebs.
1179 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1183 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1186 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1188 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1189 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1193 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1199 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1206 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1213 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1216 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1220 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1223 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1227 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1230 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1233 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1234 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1238 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1244 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1247 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1251 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1254 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1255 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1256 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1258 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1260 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1261 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1262 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1266 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1269 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1274 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1277 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1278 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1279 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1284 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1290 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1296 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1299 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1300 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1301 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1302 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1303 associated -dbg packages.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1307 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1310 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1314 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1317 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1321 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1324 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1328 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1331 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1336 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1339 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1343 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1346 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1351 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1354 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1358 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1362 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1363 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1364 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1365 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1366 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1367 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1368 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1369 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1370 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1371 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1375 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1378 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1383 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1386 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1387 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1391 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1394 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1395 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1400 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1403 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1407 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1410 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1414 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1417 out section number. Closes: #204731
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1421 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1428 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1434 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1440 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1443 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1444 removal. Closes: #204286
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1448 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1451 renaming. Closes: #203548
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1455 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1458 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1459 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1463 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1469 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1475 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1481 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1484 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1485 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1486 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1490 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1493 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1494 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1498 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1504 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1511 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1514 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1519 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1522 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1526 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1529 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1531 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1532 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1536 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1539 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1544 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1547 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1551 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1557 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1559 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1563 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1566 it break hard links (see #188663).
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1570 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1573 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1577 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1583 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1587 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1588 debconf-mergetemplates
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1592 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1595 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1599 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1602 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1606 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1609 * Update debhelper(1).
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1613 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1616 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1617 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1618 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1619 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1620 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1624 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1627 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1628 the shell. Closes: #178524
1629 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1633 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1636 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1640 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1643 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1647 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1650 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1651 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1652 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1653 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1658 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1661 files from installation.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1665 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1668 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1669 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1673 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1676 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1680 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1683 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1687 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1693 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1699 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1703 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1704 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1706 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1710 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1713 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1714 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1715 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1716 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1720 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1723 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1727 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1730 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1731 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1735 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1739 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1744 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1750 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1754 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1755 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1756 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1761 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1764 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1765 practice. Closes: #163303
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1769 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1775 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1782 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1785 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1787 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1788 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1789 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1790 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1791 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1795 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1798 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1803 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1809 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1816 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1819 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1824 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1830 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1836 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1842 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1849 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1852 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1853 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1854 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1855 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1860 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1866 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1873 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1876 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1877 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1881 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1884 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1885 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1886 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1887 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1888 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1895 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1897 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1902 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1905 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1909 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1912 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1913 right thing. Closes: #150644
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1917 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Stupid, evil typo.
1920 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1924 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1931 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1934 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1935 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1940 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1946 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1949 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1956 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1957 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1962 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1965 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1969 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1975 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1978 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1979 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1983 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1989 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Removing perl warning message.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1995 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1998 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1999 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2000 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2001 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2002 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2003 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2004 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2005 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2009 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2015 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2022 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2025 debconf-mergetemplate.
2026 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2027 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2031 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2034 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2035 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2036 dh_install, which ...
2037 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2038 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2039 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2040 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2041 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2042 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2043 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2044 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2045 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2046 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2047 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2048 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2049 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2050 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2051 other minor changes.
2052 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2053 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2054 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2055 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2056 course there's -X ..)
2057 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2058 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2059 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2061 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2062 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2063 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2064 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2065 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2070 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2076 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2079 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2083 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2089 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2095 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2101 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2107 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2110 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2111 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2112 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2113 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2115 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2116 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2120 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2126 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2129 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2133 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2136 upset. Closes: #131322
2138 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2140 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2143 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2144 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2145 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2146 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2147 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2148 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2149 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2150 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2151 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2152 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2153 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2154 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2155 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2156 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2157 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2159 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2163 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2166 - Better indenting of generated code.
2167 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2171 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2175 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2176 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2177 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2178 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2179 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2180 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2181 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2185 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2188 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2192 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2195 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2196 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2197 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2198 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2199 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2200 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2201 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2202 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2203 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2204 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2205 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2206 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2207 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2208 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2209 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2214 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2220 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2223 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2224 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2228 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2231 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2232 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2236 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2242 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2245 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2246 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2247 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2248 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2249 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2254 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2260 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2263 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2267 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2270 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2275 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2281 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2284 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2288 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2294 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2298 Also some indentation fixes.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2302 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2305 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2306 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2307 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2308 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2309 Closes: #106514, #85520
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2313 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2319 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2325 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2331 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2337 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2343 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2346 change it in debhelper v4..
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2350 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2356 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2359 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2363 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2366 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2370 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2376 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2379 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2380 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2381 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2382 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2383 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2384 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2385 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2386 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2387 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2388 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2389 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2390 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2394 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2397 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2401 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2408 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2411 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2412 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2413 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2414 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2415 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2416 program those options go to. So, for example,
2417 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2418 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2419 something complex. Closes: #89311
2420 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2424 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2427 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2428 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2429 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2433 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2436 through loop. Closes: #98598
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2440 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Missing semi-colon.
2443 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2444 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2448 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2451 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2452 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2453 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2457 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2460 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2461 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2465 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2468 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2472 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2475 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2476 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2480 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2483 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2484 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2485 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2489 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2492 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2493 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2494 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2498 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2501 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2505 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2511 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2517 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2523 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2529 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2532 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2536 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2539 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2540 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2541 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2542 followed. Closes: #85483
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2546 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2548 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2549 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2550 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2554 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2557 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2558 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2559 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2560 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2561 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2562 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2563 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2564 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2565 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2566 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2567 Closes: #88464, #77743
2568 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2569 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2570 us to deal with that gracefully.
2571 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2573 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2574 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2575 a while, Closes: #51225
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2579 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2585 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2588 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2592 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2596 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2601 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2604 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2605 don't make packlist files.
2606 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2607 debhelper coding standards.
2608 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2609 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2613 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2616 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2620 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2623 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2624 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2625 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2626 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2627 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2628 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2629 but is mildly deprecated.
2630 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2631 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2632 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2633 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2634 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2635 switching to statoverrides..
2636 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2637 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2638 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2639 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2640 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2641 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2643 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2644 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2645 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2646 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2647 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2648 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2649 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2650 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2651 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2653 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2654 variable names, pod man pages).
2655 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2656 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2657 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2658 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2659 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2660 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2661 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2665 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2671 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2678 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2681 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2685 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2687 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2688 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2689 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2693 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2695 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2696 they were previously ignored.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2700 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2702 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2703 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2707 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2709 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2710 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2711 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2715 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2717 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2721 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2723 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2724 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2728 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2730 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2731 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2732 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2733 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2734 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2735 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2736 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2737 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2738 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2739 it is an obsolete program.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2743 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2745 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2749 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2753 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2755 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2759 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2761 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2763 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2765 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2769 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2775 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * typo: Closes, #78567
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2781 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2787 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2793 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2796 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2797 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2798 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2799 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2800 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2804 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2807 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2812 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2815 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2816 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2817 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2818 backwards-compatability.
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2822 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2825 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2826 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2827 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2828 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2829 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2830 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2832 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2833 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2834 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2836 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2838 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2839 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2840 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2841 should now be raised to severity important..
2842 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2843 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2847 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2850 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2855 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2861 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2867 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2873 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2880 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2883 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2884 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2885 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2886 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2890 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2896 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2899 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2900 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2901 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2902 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2903 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2904 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2909 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2912 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2916 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2922 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2925 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2930 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2933 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2934 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2935 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2936 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2940 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2944 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2947 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2950 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2951 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2954 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2956 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2957 the TODO entry about it.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2961 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2968 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2971 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2972 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2976 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2979 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2980 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2981 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2982 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2986 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2992 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2999 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3002 (this appears to be logal).
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3006 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3009 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3010 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3011 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3012 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3016 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3022 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3025 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3026 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3027 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3028 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3032 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3038 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3041 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3045 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3052 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3055 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3056 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3057 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3062 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3069 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3075 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3078 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3079 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3080 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3081 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3082 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3083 notice until v2 is complete.
3084 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3085 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3086 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3087 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3088 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3089 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3091 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3092 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3093 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3094 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3098 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3104 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3111 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3114 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3118 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3125 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3128 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3129 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3130 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3131 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3136 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3139 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3140 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3141 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3146 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3149 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3150 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3154 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3157 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3161 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3164 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3168 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3175 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3178 depend on the build and install targets.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3182 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3185 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3189 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3196 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3202 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3208 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3211 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3212 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3213 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3214 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3215 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3216 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3218 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3219 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3220 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3221 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3222 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3223 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3224 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3228 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3234 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3240 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3243 right place. Closes: #55065
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3247 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3254 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3257 * Copyright date updates.
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3261 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3264 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3269 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3275 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3282 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3288 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3294 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3300 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3303 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3304 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3305 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3306 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3307 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3308 bits until all files have been registered.
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3312 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_installmanpages:
3315 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3316 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3317 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3318 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3319 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3320 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3321 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3322 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3323 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3324 otherwise change the result at all.
3326 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3327 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3328 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3329 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3330 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3335 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3341 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3344 act on files that don't exist.
3345 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3346 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3347 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3349 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3350 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3351 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3352 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3356 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3362 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3368 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3371 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3375 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3378 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3380 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3381 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3382 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3386 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3389 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3390 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3391 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3392 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3393 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3394 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3395 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3397 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3399 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3403 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3410 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3416 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3422 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3425 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3429 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3435 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3441 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3444 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3445 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3446 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3447 I made some changes, though:
3448 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3449 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3450 that is a clear violation of policy.
3451 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3452 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3453 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3454 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3455 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3456 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3457 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3458 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3459 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3461 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3465 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3471 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3474 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3478 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3481 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3482 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3487 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3493 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3500 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3503 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3504 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3505 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3506 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3507 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3508 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3509 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3513 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3519 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3523 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3524 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3528 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3534 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3537 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3541 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3544 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3545 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3549 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3551 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3556 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3560 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3564 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3567 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3568 for the dependancies to be generated.
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3572 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3575 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3579 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3582 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3583 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3584 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3589 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3592 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3593 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3597 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3603 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3609 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3612 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3616 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3622 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3625 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3626 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3627 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3628 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3629 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3630 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3631 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3632 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3633 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3634 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3635 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3636 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3640 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3643 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3644 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3646 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3647 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3648 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3649 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3650 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3651 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3653 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3654 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3658 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3661 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3665 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3672 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3675 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3680 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3683 for building debhelper.
3684 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3688 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3695 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3698 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3702 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3705 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3706 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3707 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3708 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3709 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3710 it's always available.
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3714 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3717 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3718 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3719 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3723 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3726 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3727 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3731 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3737 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3740 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3744 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3750 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3753 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3754 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3755 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3759 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3762 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3767 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3770 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3771 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3773 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3774 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3778 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3784 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3790 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3793 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3797 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3800 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3801 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3803 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3807 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3810 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3811 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3812 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3816 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3819 things if CDPATH is set.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3823 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3829 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3832 seems to make sense for the transition.
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3836 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3839 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3844 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3847 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3848 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3852 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3855 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3859 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3862 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3863 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3864 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3865 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3869 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3875 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3878 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3879 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3880 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3881 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3882 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3883 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3884 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3885 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3886 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3887 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3892 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3895 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3896 * README: mention doc/v2
3897 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3898 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3902 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3904 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3905 be using this script RSN.
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3909 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3912 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3913 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3914 more than 1 init script.
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3918 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3921 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3925 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * Changed perl version detection.
3928 * Changed call to find.
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3932 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3935 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3937 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3942 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * Really include dh_installpam.
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3948 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3951 * Wrote man page for same.
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3955 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3958 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3959 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3964 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3971 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3974 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3975 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3976 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3977 x bit was being set!
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3981 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3984 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3985 well. (Closes: 38900)
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3989 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3992 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3993 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3997 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4003 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4010 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4016 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4019 help from Julian Gilbey.
4020 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4021 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4022 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4023 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4024 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4025 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4026 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4031 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4037 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4044 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4050 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4056 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4059 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4063 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4066 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4070 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4073 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4077 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4083 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4086 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4090 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4096 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4102 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4105 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4106 may be deleted. (#35845)
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4110 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * Various man page enhancements.
4113 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4118 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4121 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4122 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4126 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4129 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4130 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4131 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4133 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4134 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4139 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4145 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * Another very minor typo fix.
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4151 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * Very minor typo fix.
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4157 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4160 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4161 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4165 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4171 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4173 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4174 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4175 variables properly (#34850).
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4179 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4185 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4188 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4189 (automatically generated by build process).
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4193 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4195 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4199 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4202 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4203 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4205 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4209 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4212 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4216 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * README: minor typo fix.
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4222 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4225 leave it at that. :-)
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4229 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4235 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4241 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4244 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4245 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4246 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4250 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4253 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4257 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4260 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4264 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4267 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4268 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4269 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4270 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4274 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4277 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4278 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4279 Craig Small for spotting this.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4283 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4286 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4287 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4291 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4297 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4300 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4304 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4306 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4307 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4308 working on the last version of debhelper.
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4312 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4315 being made. (#23255)
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4319 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4325 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4328 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4332 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4335 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4336 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4337 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4338 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4342 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4345 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4346 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4347 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4348 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4350 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4351 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4353 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4358 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4364 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4370 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4373 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4374 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4375 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4376 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4377 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4378 suidregister actually supports it.
4379 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4380 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4384 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4391 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4394 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4395 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4396 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4397 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4398 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4399 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4400 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4404 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4406 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4407 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4411 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4413 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4414 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4415 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4416 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4417 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4421 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4424 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4426 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4427 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4428 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4429 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4430 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4431 effect, either. (#30118)
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4435 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4441 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4444 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4445 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4449 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4455 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4458 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4459 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4460 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4461 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4465 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4468 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4469 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4473 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4479 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4482 packages, painlessly.
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4486 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4492 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4498 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4504 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * The perl conversion is complete.
4508 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4510 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4511 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4512 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4517 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4520 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4521 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4522 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4526 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4529 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4531 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4533 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4534 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4538 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4541 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4542 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4546 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4552 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4555 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4556 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4557 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4558 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4559 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4563 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4566 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4567 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4568 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4569 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4573 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4576 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4580 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4583 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4584 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4585 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4586 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4587 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4588 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4589 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4590 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4594 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4600 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4603 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4604 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4605 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4610 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4613 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4617 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4620 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4624 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4627 sections of shared libraries.
4628 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4629 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4630 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4631 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4632 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4633 things you don't want them to.
4634 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4635 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4639 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4642 shared libraries. (#26414)
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4646 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4648 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4649 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4650 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4651 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4655 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4659 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4661 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4662 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4663 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4664 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4665 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4669 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4672 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4676 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4679 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4680 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4685 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4687 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4688 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4692 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4695 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4696 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4697 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4698 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4699 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4701 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4702 remove debian/files properly.
4703 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4704 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4705 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4706 * Removed bogus menu file.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4710 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4713 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4717 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4720 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4721 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4722 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4723 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4724 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4725 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4729 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4732 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4733 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4734 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4735 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4739 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4746 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4749 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4750 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4752 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4753 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4754 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4755 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4756 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4757 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4761 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4764 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4765 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4766 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4767 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4768 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4769 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4770 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4771 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4772 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4773 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4774 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4775 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4776 passed any switches.
4777 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4781 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4784 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4785 at all for a long while.
4786 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4787 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4788 large chunks in the process.
4789 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4790 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4791 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4796 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4799 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4801 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4806 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4809 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4810 that don't always have the same files in them.
4811 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4812 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4813 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4817 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4821 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4822 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4823 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4824 updating 27 man pages.
4825 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4826 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4827 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4828 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4829 programs act on. (#25247)
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4833 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4837 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4838 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4839 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4840 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4841 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4842 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4847 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4854 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4861 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4864 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4868 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4874 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4877 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4878 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4879 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4880 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4881 package by accident.
4882 * Is version 1.0 next?
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4886 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4889 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4890 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4894 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4897 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4898 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4899 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4900 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4901 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4903 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4908 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4911 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4912 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4916 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4919 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4923 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4926 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4927 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4932 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4938 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4941 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4942 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4947 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4953 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4956 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4957 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4958 past week. Thanks, guys!
4960 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4961 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4962 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4963 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4964 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4965 would do in the same situation.
4966 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4967 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4969 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4971 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4972 permissions changed.
4973 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4974 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4975 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4976 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4977 files are treated identically.
4978 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4979 * Minor man page fixes.
4980 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4981 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4982 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4986 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4988 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4989 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4990 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4991 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4992 use -X multiple times, too.
4993 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4994 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4998 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5001 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5002 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5006 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5009 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5013 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5016 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5017 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5018 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5019 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5020 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5021 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5022 shape if you're starting a new package.
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5026 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5029 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5033 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5036 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5037 because of missing symlinks.
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5041 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5047 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5050 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5051 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5052 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5053 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5054 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5056 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5057 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5061 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5063 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5064 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5065 to be changed after the fact :-)
5066 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5070 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5072 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5073 no version string after the -V.
5075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5077 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5079 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5080 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5085 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5088 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5092 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5095 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5096 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5097 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5098 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5099 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5100 I always welcome corrections!
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5104 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5110 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5113 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5114 * Documented this new switch.
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5118 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5121 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5122 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5123 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5124 no packages use the old behavior.
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5128 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5131 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5132 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5136 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5139 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5143 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5149 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5152 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5156 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5159 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5160 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5161 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5165 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5171 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5174 into the source package by accident.
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5178 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5181 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5182 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5183 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5184 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5185 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5186 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5191 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5195 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5196 inspired to implement some of it.
5197 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5201 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5204 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5208 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5211 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5212 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5216 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5219 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5220 have done.) (#17598)
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5224 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5230 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5236 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5239 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5243 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5246 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5247 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5251 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5254 argument processor in perl.
5255 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5256 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5257 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5258 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5262 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5265 type directories. (#16933)
5266 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5267 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5268 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5269 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5270 are supported. (#16935)
5271 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5276 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5279 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5283 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5287 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5288 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5289 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5290 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5291 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5292 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5296 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5299 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5300 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5302 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5303 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5304 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5305 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5306 a given package, or -i or -a.
5307 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5308 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5309 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5310 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5311 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5312 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5313 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5314 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5315 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5317 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5318 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5319 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5323 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5326 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5327 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5332 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5335 does not have a section.
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5339 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5342 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5343 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5344 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5348 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * Fixed typo #16215.
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5354 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5357 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5358 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5359 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5360 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5361 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5366 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5369 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5370 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5371 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5376 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5382 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5388 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5391 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5392 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5393 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5394 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5395 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5396 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5400 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5406 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5409 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5413 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5416 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5417 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5418 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5422 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5425 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5429 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5435 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5438 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5442 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5445 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5449 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5455 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5458 postinst, postrm, etc.
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5462 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5468 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5471 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5472 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5473 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5474 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5475 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5479 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5482 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5483 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5487 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5490 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5494 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5497 installing package files into.
5498 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5503 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5507 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5511 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5517 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5520 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5524 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5527 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5528 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5529 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5530 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5534 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5536 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5537 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5538 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5539 multiple binary packages.
5540 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5541 should rebuild them with this version.
5542 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5546 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5549 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5553 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5556 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5560 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5563 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5564 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5565 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5566 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5567 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5568 debian/README.debian.
5569 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5570 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5571 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5572 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5573 in a few situations.)
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5577 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5583 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5589 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5592 * Fixed several man pages.
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5596 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5599 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5600 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5604 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5607 is ready for general use.
5608 * Added man pages for all commands.
5609 * Multiple binary package support.
5610 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5611 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5612 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5614 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5615 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5616 auto-installed as parameters.
5617 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5619 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5622 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5623 the package build directory it is to act on.
5624 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5625 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5626 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5630 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5632 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5633 ready to replace debstd.
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400