1 debhelper (6.0.6) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
4 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
5 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
6 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
7 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:30:16 -0500
11 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
13 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
14 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
15 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
19 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
22 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
23 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
27 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
30 with policy. Closes: #461392
31 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
32 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
33 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
34 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
35 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
39 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
42 Closes: #460340, #460351
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
46 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
49 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
50 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
51 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
52 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
56 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
59 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
60 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
61 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
62 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
63 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
64 package build directory won't work.
65 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
66 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
67 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
68 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
69 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
71 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
76 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
79 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
83 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
85 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
87 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
88 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
89 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
90 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
91 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
92 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
96 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
99 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
100 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
101 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
102 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
106 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
109 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
110 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
111 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
112 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
113 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
117 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
120 debian/package.triggers files.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
124 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
127 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
131 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
134 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
135 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
136 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
137 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
142 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
145 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
149 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
152 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
153 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
155 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
160 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
162 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
164 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
165 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
166 * Typo. Closes: #441272
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
170 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
177 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
184 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
187 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
189 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
190 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
191 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
193 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
194 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
195 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
199 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
202 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
203 * Update urls to web page.
204 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
206 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
207 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
211 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
214 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
215 - typo in alternatives call
216 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
218 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
219 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
223 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
226 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
231 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
237 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
243 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
246 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
248 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
249 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
250 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
251 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
252 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
253 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
254 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
255 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
256 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
257 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
258 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
262 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
265 package install. Closes: #415717
266 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
267 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
268 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
269 script and then remove the python files.
270 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
271 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
272 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
273 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
274 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
275 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
276 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
277 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
278 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
279 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
280 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
281 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
282 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
286 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Correct typo in french translation
292 * Typo. Closes: #400571
293 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
295 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
297 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
298 Closes: #406921, #381940
299 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
301 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
302 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
303 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
304 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
305 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
306 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
307 specified). Closes: #381851
308 * Misc minor changes.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
312 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
319 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
320 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
324 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
330 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
331 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
334 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
335 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
337 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
338 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
339 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
340 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
344 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
347 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
350 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
354 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
360 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
366 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
367 a difficult situation.
368 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
369 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
370 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
371 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
372 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
373 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
374 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
375 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
376 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
377 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
381 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
383 * Non-maintainer upload.
384 * Update of dh_python
385 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
386 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
388 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
389 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
390 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
391 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
392 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
394 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
396 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Non-maintainer upload.
399 * Update of dh_python
400 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
401 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
402 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
403 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
404 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
405 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
406 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
407 specific python version. Closes: #373853
408 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
409 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
411 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
412 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
413 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
414 the not too-distant future).
415 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
416 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
417 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
418 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
419 thus made the build fail.
421 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
423 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Non-maintainer upload.
426 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
428 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
430 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
432 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
433 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
434 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
435 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
436 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
437 package. Closes: #301424
438 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
439 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
440 fonts). Closes: #372686
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
444 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
447 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
450 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
451 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
452 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
453 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
454 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
455 above, but already depends on that.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
459 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
462 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
463 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
464 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
465 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
466 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
470 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
476 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
482 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
483 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
487 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
490 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
494 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
498 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
499 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
500 new version (0.24.1).
501 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
502 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
505 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
506 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
507 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
508 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
509 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
510 new directory on their own.
511 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
512 * Fix broken directory removal code.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
516 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
518 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
519 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
520 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
521 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
522 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
526 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
529 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
530 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
531 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
532 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
533 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
537 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
543 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Typo. Closes: #358904
547 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
548 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
552 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
553 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
557 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
559 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
560 || exit 0 instead of the intended
562 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
563 ignored. Closes: #337664
565 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
570 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
576 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
581 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
582 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
583 the dh_installdebconf manpage
584 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
585 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
586 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
587 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
591 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
594 version. Closes: #350607
595 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
596 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
597 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
598 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
602 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
605 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
606 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
607 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
611 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
618 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Minor bug fix from last release.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
624 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
627 language guessing. Closes: #193221
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
631 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
634 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
635 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
636 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
637 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
638 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
639 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
643 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
646 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
647 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
652 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
655 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
659 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
662 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
666 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
669 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
670 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
671 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
672 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
673 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
674 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
678 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
681 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
682 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
683 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
684 link. Closes: #346405
685 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
688 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
689 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
690 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
691 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
692 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
693 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
697 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
704 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
706 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
710 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
713 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
717 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
720 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
725 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
729 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
730 installed. Closes: #342033
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
734 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
737 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
738 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
739 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
744 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
750 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
756 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
760 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
761 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
762 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
766 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
768 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
769 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
774 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
776 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
781 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
787 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
789 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
790 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
791 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
792 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
793 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
794 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
795 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
796 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
798 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
802 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
805 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
806 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
810 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
813 in standard man dirs.
814 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
818 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
824 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
827 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
832 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
839 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
846 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
849 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
850 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
854 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
856 * NMU with maintainer approval.
857 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
858 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
859 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
861 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
863 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
869 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
875 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
878 mode. Closes: #324161
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
882 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
885 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
886 behavior change. Closes: #249815
887 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
888 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
893 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
896 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
897 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
898 is necesary for sanity.
899 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
900 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
905 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
907 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
908 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
912 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
915 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
919 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
925 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
928 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
929 released, so use at your own risk.
930 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
931 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
933 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
934 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
935 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
936 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
937 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
938 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
939 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
940 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
941 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
942 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
943 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
944 including twice per config file line now..
945 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
946 and simplfy the rules file.
947 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
948 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
949 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
951 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
952 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
956 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
959 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
963 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
965 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
966 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
970 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
972 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
973 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
977 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
980 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
981 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
982 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
983 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
984 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
985 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
989 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
992 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
993 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
994 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
999 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1002 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1003 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1008 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1011 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1012 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1013 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1018 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1021 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1022 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1023 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1027 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1033 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1040 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1043 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1044 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1045 unknown. Closes: #282924
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1049 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1056 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Spanish man page updates.
1059 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1064 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1070 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1073 * dh_desktop: reindent
1074 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1075 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1079 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1085 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1087 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1091 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1093 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1097 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1100 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1101 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1105 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1111 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1117 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1124 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1127 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1131 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1134 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1135 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1136 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1137 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1138 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1139 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1141 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1142 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1143 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1144 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1145 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1146 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1147 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1148 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1149 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1150 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1151 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1152 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1153 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1154 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1155 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1156 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1160 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1167 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1170 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1174 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1177 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1181 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1184 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1188 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1191 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1195 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1201 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1207 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1213 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1216 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1217 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1218 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1222 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1225 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1229 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1232 but occasionally right and necessary.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1236 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1239 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1240 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1241 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1242 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1243 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1247 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1250 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1252 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1253 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1254 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1255 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1256 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1257 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1258 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1259 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1260 postinst scripts for udebs.
1261 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1265 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1268 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1270 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1271 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1275 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1281 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1288 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1295 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1298 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1302 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1305 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1309 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1312 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1315 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1316 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1320 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1326 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1329 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1333 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1336 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1337 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1338 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1340 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1342 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1343 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1344 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1348 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1351 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1356 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1359 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1360 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1361 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1366 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1372 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1378 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1381 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1382 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1383 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1384 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1385 associated -dbg packages.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1389 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1392 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1396 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1399 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1403 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1406 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1410 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1413 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1418 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1421 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1425 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1428 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1433 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1436 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1440 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1444 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1445 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1446 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1447 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1448 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1449 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1450 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1451 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1452 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1453 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1457 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1460 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1465 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1468 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1469 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1473 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1476 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1477 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1482 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1485 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1489 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1492 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1496 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1499 out section number. Closes: #204731
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1503 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1510 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1516 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1522 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1525 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1526 removal. Closes: #204286
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1530 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1533 renaming. Closes: #203548
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1537 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1540 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1541 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1545 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1551 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1557 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1563 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1566 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1567 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1568 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1572 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1575 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1576 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1580 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1586 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1593 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1596 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1601 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1604 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1608 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1611 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1613 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1614 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1618 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1621 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1626 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1629 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1633 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1639 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1641 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1645 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1648 it break hard links (see #188663).
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1652 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1655 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1659 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1665 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1669 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1670 debconf-mergetemplates
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1674 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1677 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1681 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1684 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1688 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1691 * Update debhelper(1).
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1695 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1698 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1699 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1700 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1701 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1702 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1706 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1709 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1710 the shell. Closes: #178524
1711 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1715 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1718 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1722 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1725 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1729 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1732 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1733 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1734 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1735 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1740 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1743 files from installation.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1747 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1750 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1751 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1755 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1758 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1762 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1765 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1769 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1775 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1781 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1785 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1786 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1788 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1792 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1795 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1796 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1797 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1798 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1802 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1805 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1809 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1812 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1813 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1817 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1821 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1826 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1832 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1836 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1837 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1838 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1846 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1847 practice. Closes: #163303
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1851 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1857 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1864 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1867 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1869 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1870 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1871 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1872 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1873 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1877 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1880 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1885 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1891 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1898 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1901 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1906 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1912 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1918 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1924 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1931 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1934 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1935 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1936 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1937 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1942 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1948 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1955 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1958 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1959 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1963 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1966 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1967 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1968 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1969 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1970 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1974 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1977 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1979 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1984 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1987 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1991 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1994 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1995 right thing. Closes: #150644
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1999 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Stupid, evil typo.
2002 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2006 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2013 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2016 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2017 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2022 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2028 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2031 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2038 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2039 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2044 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2047 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2051 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2057 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2060 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2061 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2065 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2071 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Removing perl warning message.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2077 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2080 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2081 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2082 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2083 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2084 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2085 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2086 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2087 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2091 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2097 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2107 debconf-mergetemplate.
2108 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2109 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2113 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2116 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2117 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2118 dh_install, which ...
2119 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2120 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2121 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2122 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2123 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2124 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2125 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2126 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2127 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2128 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2129 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2130 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2131 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2132 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2133 other minor changes.
2134 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2135 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2136 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2137 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2138 course there's -X ..)
2139 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2140 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2141 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2143 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2144 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2145 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2146 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2147 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2152 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2158 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2161 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2165 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2171 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2177 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2183 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2189 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2192 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2193 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2194 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2195 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2197 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2198 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2202 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2208 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2211 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2215 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2218 upset. Closes: #131322
2220 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2222 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2225 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2226 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2227 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2228 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2229 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2230 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2231 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2232 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2233 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2234 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2235 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2236 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2237 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2238 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2239 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2241 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2245 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2248 - Better indenting of generated code.
2249 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2253 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2257 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2258 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2259 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2260 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2261 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2262 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2263 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2267 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2270 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2274 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2277 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2278 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2279 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2280 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2281 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2282 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2283 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2284 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2285 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2286 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2287 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2288 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2289 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2290 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2291 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2296 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2302 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2305 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2306 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2310 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2313 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2314 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2318 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2324 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2327 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2328 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2329 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2330 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2331 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2336 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2342 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2345 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2349 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2352 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2357 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2363 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2366 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2370 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2376 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2380 Also some indentation fixes.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2384 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2387 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2388 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2389 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2390 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2391 Closes: #106514, #85520
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2395 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2401 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2407 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2413 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2419 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2425 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2428 change it in debhelper v4..
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2432 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2438 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2441 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2445 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2448 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2452 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2458 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2461 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2462 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2463 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2464 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2465 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2466 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2467 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2468 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2469 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2470 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2471 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2472 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2476 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2479 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2483 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2490 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2493 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2494 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2495 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2496 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2497 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2498 program those options go to. So, for example,
2499 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2500 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2501 something complex. Closes: #89311
2502 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2506 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2509 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2510 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2511 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2515 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2518 through loop. Closes: #98598
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2522 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Missing semi-colon.
2525 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2526 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2530 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2533 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2534 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2535 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2539 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2542 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2543 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2547 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2550 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2554 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2557 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2558 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2562 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2565 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2566 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2567 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2571 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2574 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2575 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2576 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2580 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2583 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2587 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2593 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2599 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2605 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2611 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2614 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2618 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2621 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2622 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2623 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2624 followed. Closes: #85483
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2628 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2630 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2631 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2632 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2636 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2639 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2640 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2641 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2642 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2643 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2644 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2645 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2646 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2647 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2648 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2649 Closes: #88464, #77743
2650 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2651 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2652 us to deal with that gracefully.
2653 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2655 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2656 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2657 a while, Closes: #51225
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2661 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2667 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2670 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2674 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2678 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2683 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2686 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2687 don't make packlist files.
2688 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2689 debhelper coding standards.
2690 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2691 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2695 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2698 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2702 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2705 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2706 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2707 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2708 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2709 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2710 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2711 but is mildly deprecated.
2712 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2713 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2714 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2715 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2716 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2717 switching to statoverrides..
2718 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2719 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2720 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2721 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2722 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2723 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2725 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2726 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2727 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2728 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2729 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2730 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2731 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2732 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2733 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2735 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2736 variable names, pod man pages).
2737 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2738 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2739 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2740 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2741 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2742 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2743 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2747 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2753 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2760 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2763 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2767 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2769 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2770 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2771 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2775 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2777 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2778 they were previously ignored.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2782 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2784 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2785 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2789 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2791 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2792 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2793 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2797 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2799 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2803 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2805 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2806 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2810 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2812 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2813 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2814 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2815 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2816 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2817 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2818 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2819 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2820 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2821 it is an obsolete program.
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2825 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2827 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2831 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2835 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2837 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2841 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2843 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2845 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2847 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2851 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2857 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * typo: Closes, #78567
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2863 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2869 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2875 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2878 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2879 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2880 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2881 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2882 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2886 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2889 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2894 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2897 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2898 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2899 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2900 backwards-compatability.
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2904 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2907 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2908 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2909 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2910 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2911 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2912 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2914 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2915 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2916 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2918 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2920 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2921 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2922 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2923 should now be raised to severity important..
2924 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2925 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2929 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2932 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2937 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2943 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2949 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2955 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2962 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2965 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2966 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2967 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2968 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2972 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2978 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2981 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2982 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2983 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2984 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2985 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2986 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2991 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2994 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2998 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3004 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3007 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3012 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3015 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3016 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3017 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3018 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3022 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3026 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3029 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3032 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3033 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3036 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3038 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3039 the TODO entry about it.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3043 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3050 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3053 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3054 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3058 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3061 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3062 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3063 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3064 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3068 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3074 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3081 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3084 (this appears to be logal).
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3088 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3091 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3092 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3093 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3094 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3098 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3104 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3107 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3108 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3109 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3110 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3114 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3120 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3123 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3127 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3134 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3137 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3138 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3139 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3144 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3151 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3157 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3160 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3161 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3162 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3163 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3164 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3165 notice until v2 is complete.
3166 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3167 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3168 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3169 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3170 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3171 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3173 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3174 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3175 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3176 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3180 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3186 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3193 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3196 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3200 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3207 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3210 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3211 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3212 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3213 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3218 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3221 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3222 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3223 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3228 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3231 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3232 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3236 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3239 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3243 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3246 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3250 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3257 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3260 depend on the build and install targets.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3264 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3267 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3271 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3278 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3284 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3290 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3293 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3294 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3295 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3296 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3297 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3298 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3300 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3301 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3302 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3303 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3304 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3305 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3306 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3310 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3316 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3322 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3325 right place. Closes: #55065
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3329 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3336 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3339 * Copyright date updates.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3343 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3346 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3351 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3357 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3364 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3370 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3376 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3382 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3385 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3386 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3387 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3388 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3389 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3390 bits until all files have been registered.
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3394 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_installmanpages:
3397 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3398 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3399 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3400 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3401 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3402 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3403 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3404 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3405 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3406 otherwise change the result at all.
3408 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3409 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3410 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3411 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3412 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3417 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3423 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3426 act on files that don't exist.
3427 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3428 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3429 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3431 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3432 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3433 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3434 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3438 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3444 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3450 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3453 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3457 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3460 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3462 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3463 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3464 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3468 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3471 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3472 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3473 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3474 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3475 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3476 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3477 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3479 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3481 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3485 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3492 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3498 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3504 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3507 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3511 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3517 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3523 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3526 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3527 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3528 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3529 I made some changes, though:
3530 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3531 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3532 that is a clear violation of policy.
3533 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3534 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3535 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3536 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3537 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3538 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3539 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3540 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3541 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3543 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3547 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3553 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3556 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3560 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3563 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3564 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3569 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3575 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3582 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3585 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3586 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3587 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3588 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3589 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3590 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3591 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3595 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3601 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3605 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3606 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3610 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3616 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3619 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3623 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3626 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3627 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3633 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3638 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3642 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3646 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3649 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3650 for the dependancies to be generated.
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3654 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3657 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3661 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3664 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3665 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3666 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3671 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3674 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3675 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3679 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3685 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3691 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3694 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3698 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3704 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3707 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3708 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3709 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3710 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3711 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3712 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3713 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3714 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3715 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3716 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3717 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3718 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3722 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3725 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3726 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3728 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3729 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3730 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3731 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3732 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3733 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3735 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3736 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3740 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3743 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3747 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3754 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3757 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3762 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3765 for building debhelper.
3766 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3770 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3777 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3780 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3784 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3787 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3788 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3789 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3790 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3791 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3792 it's always available.
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3796 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3799 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3800 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3801 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3805 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3808 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3809 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3813 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3819 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3822 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3826 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3832 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3835 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3836 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3837 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3841 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3844 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3849 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3852 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3853 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3855 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3856 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3860 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3866 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3872 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3875 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3879 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3882 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3883 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3885 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3889 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3892 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3893 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3894 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3898 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3901 things if CDPATH is set.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3905 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3911 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3914 seems to make sense for the transition.
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3918 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3921 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3926 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3929 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3930 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3934 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3937 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3941 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3944 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3945 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3946 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3947 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3951 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3957 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3960 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3961 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3962 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3963 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3964 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3965 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3966 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3967 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3968 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3969 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3974 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3977 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3978 * README: mention doc/v2
3979 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3980 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3984 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3986 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3987 be using this script RSN.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3991 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3994 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3995 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3996 more than 1 init script.
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4000 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4003 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4007 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Changed perl version detection.
4010 * Changed call to find.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4014 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4017 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4019 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4024 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * Really include dh_installpam.
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4030 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4033 * Wrote man page for same.
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4037 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4040 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4041 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4046 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4053 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4056 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4057 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4058 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4059 x bit was being set!
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4063 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4066 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4067 well. (Closes: 38900)
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4071 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4074 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4075 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4079 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4085 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4092 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4098 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4101 help from Julian Gilbey.
4102 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4103 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4104 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4105 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4106 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4107 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4108 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4113 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4119 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4126 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4132 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4138 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4141 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4145 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4148 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4152 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4155 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4159 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4165 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4168 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4172 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4178 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4184 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4187 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4188 may be deleted. (#35845)
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4192 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * Various man page enhancements.
4195 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4200 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4203 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4204 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4208 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4211 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4212 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4213 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4215 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4216 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4221 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4227 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * Another very minor typo fix.
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4233 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * Very minor typo fix.
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4239 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4242 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4243 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4247 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4253 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4256 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4257 variables properly (#34850).
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4261 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4267 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4270 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4271 (automatically generated by build process).
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4275 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4277 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4281 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4284 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4285 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4287 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4291 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4294 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4298 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * README: minor typo fix.
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4304 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4307 leave it at that. :-)
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4311 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4317 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4323 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4326 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4327 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4328 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4332 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4335 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4339 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4342 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4346 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4349 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4350 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4351 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4352 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4356 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4359 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4360 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4361 Craig Small for spotting this.
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4365 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4368 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4369 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4373 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4379 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4382 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4386 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4388 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4389 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4390 working on the last version of debhelper.
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4394 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4397 being made. (#23255)
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4401 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4407 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4410 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4414 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4417 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4418 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4419 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4420 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4424 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4427 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4428 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4429 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4430 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4432 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4433 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4435 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4440 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4446 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4452 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4455 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4456 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4457 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4458 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4459 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4460 suidregister actually supports it.
4461 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4462 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4466 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4473 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4476 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4477 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4478 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4479 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4480 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4481 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4482 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4486 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4488 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4489 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4493 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4496 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4497 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4498 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4499 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4503 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4506 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4508 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4509 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4510 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4511 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4512 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4513 effect, either. (#30118)
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4517 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4523 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4526 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4527 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4531 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4537 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4540 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4541 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4542 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4543 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4547 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4550 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4551 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4555 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4561 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4564 packages, painlessly.
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4568 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4574 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4580 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4586 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * The perl conversion is complete.
4590 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4592 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4593 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4594 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4599 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4602 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4603 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4604 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4608 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4611 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4613 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4615 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4616 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4620 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4623 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4624 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4628 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4634 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4637 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4638 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4639 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4640 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4641 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4645 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4648 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4649 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4650 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4651 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4655 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4658 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4662 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4664 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4665 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4666 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4667 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4668 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4669 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4670 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4671 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4672 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4676 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4682 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4685 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4686 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4687 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4692 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4695 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4699 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4702 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4706 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4708 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4709 sections of shared libraries.
4710 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4711 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4712 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4713 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4714 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4715 things you don't want them to.
4716 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4717 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4721 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4724 shared libraries. (#26414)
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4728 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4730 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4731 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4732 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4733 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4737 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4741 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4743 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4744 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4745 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4746 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4747 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4751 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4754 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4758 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4761 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4762 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4767 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4770 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4774 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4777 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4778 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4779 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4780 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4781 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4783 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4784 remove debian/files properly.
4785 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4786 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4787 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4788 * Removed bogus menu file.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4792 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4795 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4799 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4802 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4803 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4804 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4805 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4806 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4807 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4811 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4814 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4815 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4816 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4817 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4821 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4828 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4831 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4832 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4834 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4835 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4836 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4837 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4838 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4839 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4843 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4846 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4847 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4848 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4849 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4850 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4851 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4852 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4853 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4854 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4855 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4856 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4857 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4858 passed any switches.
4859 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4863 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4865 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4866 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4867 at all for a long while.
4868 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4869 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4870 large chunks in the process.
4871 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4872 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4873 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4878 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4881 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4883 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4888 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4891 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4892 that don't always have the same files in them.
4893 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4894 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4895 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4899 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4903 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4904 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4905 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4906 updating 27 man pages.
4907 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4908 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4909 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4910 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4911 programs act on. (#25247)
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4915 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4919 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4920 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4921 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4922 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4923 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4924 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4929 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4936 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4943 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4946 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4950 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4956 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4959 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4960 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4961 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4962 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4963 package by accident.
4964 * Is version 1.0 next?
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4968 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4971 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4972 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4976 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4979 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4980 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4981 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4982 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4983 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4985 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4990 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4993 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4994 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4998 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5001 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5005 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5008 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5009 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5014 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5020 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5023 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5024 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5029 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5035 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5038 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5039 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5040 past week. Thanks, guys!
5042 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5043 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5044 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5045 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5046 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5047 would do in the same situation.
5048 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5049 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5051 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5053 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5054 permissions changed.
5055 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5056 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5057 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5058 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5059 files are treated identically.
5060 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5061 * Minor man page fixes.
5062 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5063 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5064 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5068 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5071 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5072 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5073 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5074 use -X multiple times, too.
5075 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5076 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5080 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5083 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5084 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5088 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5091 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5095 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5098 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5099 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5100 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5101 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5102 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5103 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5104 shape if you're starting a new package.
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5108 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5111 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5115 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5118 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5119 because of missing symlinks.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5123 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5129 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5132 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5133 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5134 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5135 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5136 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5138 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5139 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5143 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5145 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5146 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5147 to be changed after the fact :-)
5148 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5152 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5154 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5155 no version string after the -V.
5157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5159 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5161 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5162 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5167 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5170 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5174 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5177 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5178 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5179 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5180 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5181 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5182 I always welcome corrections!
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5186 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5192 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5195 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5196 * Documented this new switch.
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5200 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5203 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5204 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5205 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5206 no packages use the old behavior.
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5210 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5213 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5214 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5218 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5221 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5225 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5231 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5234 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5238 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5241 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5242 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5243 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5247 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5253 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5256 into the source package by accident.
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5260 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5263 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5264 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5265 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5266 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5267 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5268 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5273 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5277 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5278 inspired to implement some of it.
5279 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5283 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5286 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5290 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5293 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5294 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5298 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5301 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5302 have done.) (#17598)
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5306 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5312 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5318 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5321 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5325 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5328 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5329 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5333 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5335 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5336 argument processor in perl.
5337 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5338 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5339 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5340 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5344 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5347 type directories. (#16933)
5348 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5349 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5350 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5351 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5352 are supported. (#16935)
5353 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5358 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5361 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5365 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5369 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5370 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5371 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5372 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5373 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5374 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5378 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5381 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5382 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5384 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5385 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5386 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5387 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5388 a given package, or -i or -a.
5389 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5390 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5391 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5392 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5393 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5394 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5395 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5396 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5397 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5399 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5400 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5401 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5405 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5408 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5409 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5414 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5417 does not have a section.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5421 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5424 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5425 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5426 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5430 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * Fixed typo #16215.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5436 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5439 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5440 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5441 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5442 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5443 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5448 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5451 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5452 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5453 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5458 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5464 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5466 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5470 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5473 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5474 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5475 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5476 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5477 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5478 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5482 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5488 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5491 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5495 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5498 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5499 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5500 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5504 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5507 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5511 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5517 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5520 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5524 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5527 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5531 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5533 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5537 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5540 postinst, postrm, etc.
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5544 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5550 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5553 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5554 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5555 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5556 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5557 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5561 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5564 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5565 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5569 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5572 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5576 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5579 installing package files into.
5580 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5585 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5589 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5593 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5599 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5602 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5606 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5609 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5610 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5611 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5612 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5616 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5618 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5619 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5620 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5621 multiple binary packages.
5622 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5623 should rebuild them with this version.
5624 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5628 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5631 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5635 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5638 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5642 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5644 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5645 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5646 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5647 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5648 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5649 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5650 debian/README.debian.
5651 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5652 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5653 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5654 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5655 in a few situations.)
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5659 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5661 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5665 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5671 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5674 * Fixed several man pages.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5678 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5681 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5682 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5686 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5689 is ready for general use.
5690 * Added man pages for all commands.
5691 * Multiple binary package support.
5692 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5693 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5694 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5696 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5697 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5698 auto-installed as parameters.
5699 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5701 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5704 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5705 the package build directory it is to act on.
5706 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5707 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5708 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5712 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5714 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5715 ready to replace debstd.
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400