1 debhelper (7.4.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
5 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
6 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown, dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
9 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:18:35 -0400
14 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
17 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
18 (It was only run once due to logging.)
19 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
20 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
21 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
22 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
23 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
24 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
25 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
26 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
27 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
28 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
32 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
36 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
39 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
40 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
44 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
47 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
48 flag with arch all/any packages.
49 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
50 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
51 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
52 situation. Closes: #540794
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
56 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
60 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
61 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
62 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
63 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
64 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
67 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
68 the default. Closes: #538201
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
73 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
77 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
78 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
79 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
80 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
81 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
83 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
84 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
85 * Above Closes: #491117
86 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
91 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
97 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
98 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
99 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
103 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
106 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
107 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
108 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
109 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
110 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
115 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
118 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
119 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
123 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
125 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
129 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
131 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
132 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
134 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
135 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
136 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
140 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
142 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
143 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
147 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
153 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
155 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
156 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
157 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
162 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
164 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
168 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
171 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
172 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
173 created by using `python' first during build and install.
175 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
180 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
182 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
186 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
188 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
189 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
193 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
195 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
199 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
201 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
205 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
207 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
208 contributed by Modestas Vainius
209 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
210 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
211 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
212 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
213 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
214 that support it. Closes: #480577
215 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
216 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
217 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
219 - Adds support for cmake.
220 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
221 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
223 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
225 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
226 that use them. The options are:
227 --sourcedir, --destdir
228 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
229 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
230 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
231 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
232 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
236 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
242 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
245 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
246 default. Closes: #537140
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
250 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
253 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
254 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
258 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
261 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
265 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
267 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
268 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
272 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
275 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
277 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
278 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
279 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
283 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
286 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
287 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
288 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
292 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
295 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
296 warning or deprecation message.
297 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
298 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
299 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
300 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
301 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
302 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
303 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
304 Closes: #534639, #357434
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
308 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
314 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
317 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
318 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
319 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
320 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
322 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
323 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
324 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
328 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
334 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
336 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
341 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
344 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
348 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
352 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
353 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
355 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
356 file support. Closes: #494914
357 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
361 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
364 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
365 parameters. Closes: #527256
366 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
367 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
368 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
372 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
376 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
377 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
378 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
382 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
385 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
386 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
387 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
391 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
394 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
395 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
397 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
398 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
399 by triggers). Closes: #521181
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
403 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
407 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
411 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
414 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
415 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
416 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
417 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
422 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
428 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
431 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
432 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
433 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
434 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
435 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
437 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
438 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
439 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
440 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
441 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
442 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
446 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
449 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
450 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
451 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
452 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
453 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
455 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
459 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
461 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
465 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
467 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
468 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
469 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
470 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
471 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
472 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
473 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
474 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
475 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
476 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
477 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
481 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
483 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
484 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
486 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
487 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
488 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
489 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
491 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
492 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
496 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
498 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
499 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
500 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
501 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
502 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
503 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
504 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
506 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
507 that uses them. Affected options are:
508 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
509 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
510 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
511 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
512 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
513 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
514 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
515 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
516 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
517 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
518 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
519 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
523 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
530 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
536 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
538 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
539 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
541 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
542 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
543 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
544 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
545 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
547 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
549 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
550 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
551 rules (see bug #509756).
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
555 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
561 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
562 * Typo. Closes: #493062
563 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
564 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
568 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
571 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
572 empty files. Closes: #490937
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
576 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
582 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
589 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
592 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
593 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
594 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
595 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
600 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
602 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
603 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
604 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
605 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
609 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
612 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
613 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
614 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
615 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
616 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
620 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
627 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
629 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
630 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
631 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
632 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
633 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
634 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
635 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
636 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
637 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
638 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
642 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
645 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
646 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
647 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
648 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
650 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
651 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
652 breaking backwards compatability.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
656 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
659 message in perl 5.10.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
663 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
669 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Convert copyright file to new format.
672 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
676 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
679 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
683 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
686 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
687 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
688 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
689 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
690 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
691 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
692 logging by dh_listpackages.
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
696 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
699 run and there are no packages of that type.
700 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
701 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
702 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
703 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
705 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
706 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
710 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
712 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
713 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
714 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
718 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
721 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
722 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
724 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
725 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
726 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
727 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
728 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
729 planned but not yet implemented.)
730 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
731 if the Makefile has such a target.
732 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
733 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
734 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
735 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
736 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
737 but not yet implemented.)
738 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
739 recommended default, especially when using dh.
740 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
741 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
742 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
744 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
746 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
747 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
749 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
750 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
751 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
756 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
759 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
760 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
764 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
766 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
767 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
768 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
772 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
774 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
778 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
784 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
787 just those installed by the program.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
791 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
794 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
795 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
799 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
802 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
803 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
804 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
805 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
809 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
812 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
813 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
817 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
820 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
821 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
825 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
828 with policy. Closes: #461392
829 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
830 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
831 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
832 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
833 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
837 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
840 Closes: #460340, #460351
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
844 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
847 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
848 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
849 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
850 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
854 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
856 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
857 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
858 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
859 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
860 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
861 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
862 package build directory won't work.
863 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
864 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
865 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
866 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
867 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
868 mode. Closes: #459426
869 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
874 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
877 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
881 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
885 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
886 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
887 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
888 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
889 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
890 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
894 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
897 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
898 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
899 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
900 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
904 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
907 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
908 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
909 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
910 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
911 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
915 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
918 debian/package.triggers files.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
922 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
925 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
929 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
932 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
933 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
934 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
935 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
940 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
943 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
947 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
950 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
951 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
953 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
958 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
962 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
963 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
964 * Typo. Closes: #441272
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
968 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
975 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
982 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
985 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
987 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
988 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
989 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
991 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
992 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
993 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
997 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1000 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1001 * Update urls to web page.
1002 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1003 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1004 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1005 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1009 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1012 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1013 - typo in alternatives call
1014 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1016 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1017 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1021 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1024 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1029 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1035 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1041 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1044 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1046 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1047 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1048 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1049 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1050 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1051 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1052 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1053 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1054 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1055 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1056 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1060 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1063 package install. Closes: #415717
1064 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1065 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1066 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1067 script and then remove the python files.
1068 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1069 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1070 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1071 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1072 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1073 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1074 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1075 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1076 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1077 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1078 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1079 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1080 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1084 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Correct typo in french translation
1090 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1091 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1093 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1095 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1096 Closes: #406921, #381940
1097 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1099 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1100 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1101 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1102 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1103 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1104 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1105 specified). Closes: #381851
1106 * Misc minor changes.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1110 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1117 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1118 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1122 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1128 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1129 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1132 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1133 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1135 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1136 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1137 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1138 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1142 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1145 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1148 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1152 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1158 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1164 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1165 a difficult situation.
1166 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1167 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1168 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1169 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1170 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1171 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1172 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1173 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1174 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1175 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1179 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Non-maintainer upload.
1182 * Update of dh_python
1183 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1184 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1186 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1187 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1188 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1189 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1190 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1192 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1194 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Non-maintainer upload.
1197 * Update of dh_python
1198 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1199 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1200 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1201 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1202 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1203 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1204 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1205 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1206 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1207 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1209 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1210 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1211 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1212 the not too-distant future).
1213 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1214 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1215 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1216 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1217 thus made the build fail.
1219 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1221 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Non-maintainer upload.
1224 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1226 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1228 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1231 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1232 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1233 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1234 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1235 package. Closes: #301424
1236 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1237 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1238 fonts). Closes: #372686
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1242 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1248 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1249 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1250 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1251 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1252 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1253 above, but already depends on that.
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1257 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1260 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1261 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1262 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1263 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1264 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1268 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1274 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1280 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1281 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1285 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1288 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1292 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1296 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1297 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1298 new version (0.24.1).
1299 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1300 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1303 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1304 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1305 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1306 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1307 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1308 new directory on their own.
1309 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1310 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1314 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1317 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1318 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1319 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1320 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1324 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1327 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1328 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1329 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1330 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1331 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1335 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1341 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1345 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1346 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1350 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1351 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1355 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1357 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1358 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1360 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1361 ignored. Closes: #337664
1363 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1368 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1374 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1379 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1380 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1381 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1382 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1383 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1384 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1385 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1389 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1392 version. Closes: #350607
1393 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1394 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1395 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1396 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1400 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1403 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1404 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1405 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1409 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1416 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1422 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1425 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1429 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1432 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1433 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1434 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1435 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1436 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1437 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1441 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1444 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1445 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1450 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1453 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1457 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1460 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1464 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1467 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1468 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1469 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1470 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1471 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1472 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1476 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1480 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1481 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1482 link. Closes: #346405
1483 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1485 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1486 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1487 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1488 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1489 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1490 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1491 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1495 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1502 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1508 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1511 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1515 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1518 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1523 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1527 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1528 installed. Closes: #342033
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1532 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1535 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1536 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1537 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1542 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1548 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1554 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1558 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1559 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1560 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1564 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1567 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1572 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1579 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1585 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1588 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1589 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1590 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1591 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1592 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1593 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1594 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1596 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1600 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1603 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1604 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1608 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1611 in standard man dirs.
1612 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1616 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1622 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1625 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1630 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1637 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1644 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1647 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1648 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1652 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1655 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1656 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1657 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1659 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1661 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1667 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1673 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1676 mode. Closes: #324161
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1680 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1683 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1684 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1685 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1686 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1691 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1694 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1695 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1696 is necesary for sanity.
1697 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1698 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1703 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1705 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1706 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1710 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1713 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1717 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1723 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1726 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1727 released, so use at your own risk.
1728 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1729 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1731 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1732 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1733 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1734 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1735 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1736 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1737 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1738 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1739 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1740 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1741 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1742 including twice per config file line now..
1743 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1744 and simplfy the rules file.
1745 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1746 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1747 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1749 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1750 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1754 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1757 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1761 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1764 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1768 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1771 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1775 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1778 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1779 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1780 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1781 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1782 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1783 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1787 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1790 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1791 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1792 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1797 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1800 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1801 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1806 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1809 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1810 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1811 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1816 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1819 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1820 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1821 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1825 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1831 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1838 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1841 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1842 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1843 unknown. Closes: #282924
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1847 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1854 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Spanish man page updates.
1857 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1862 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1868 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1871 * dh_desktop: reindent
1872 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1873 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1877 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1883 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1885 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1889 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1891 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1895 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1898 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1899 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1903 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1909 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1915 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1925 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1929 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1932 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1933 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1934 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1935 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1936 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1937 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1939 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1940 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1941 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1942 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1943 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1944 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1945 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1946 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1947 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1948 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1949 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1950 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1951 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1952 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1953 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1954 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1958 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1965 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1968 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1972 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1975 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1979 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1982 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1986 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1989 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1993 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1999 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2005 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2011 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2014 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2015 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2016 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2020 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2023 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2027 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2030 but occasionally right and necessary.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2034 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2037 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2038 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2039 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2040 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2041 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2045 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2048 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2050 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2051 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2052 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2053 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2054 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2055 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2056 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2057 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2058 postinst scripts for udebs.
2059 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2063 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2066 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2068 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2069 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2073 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2079 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2086 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2093 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2096 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2100 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2103 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2107 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2110 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2113 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2114 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2118 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2124 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2127 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2131 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2134 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2135 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2136 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2138 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2140 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2141 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2142 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2146 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2149 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2154 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2157 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2158 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2159 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2164 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2170 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2176 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2179 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2180 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2181 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2182 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2183 associated -dbg packages.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2187 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2190 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2194 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2197 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2201 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2204 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2208 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2211 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2216 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2219 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2223 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2226 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2231 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2234 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2238 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2242 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2243 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2244 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2245 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2246 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2247 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2248 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2249 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2250 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2251 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2255 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2258 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2263 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2266 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2267 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2271 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2274 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2275 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2280 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2283 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2287 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2290 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2297 out section number. Closes: #204731
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2308 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2320 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2323 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2324 removal. Closes: #204286
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2328 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2331 renaming. Closes: #203548
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2335 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2338 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2339 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2349 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2355 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2361 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2364 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2365 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2366 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2370 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2373 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2374 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2378 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2384 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2394 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2399 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2402 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2409 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2411 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2412 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2416 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2419 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2427 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2439 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2443 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2446 it break hard links (see #188663).
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2453 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2457 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2463 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2467 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2468 debconf-mergetemplates
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2472 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2475 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2479 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2482 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2486 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2489 * Update debhelper(1).
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2493 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2496 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2497 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2498 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2499 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2500 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2504 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2507 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2508 the shell. Closes: #178524
2509 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2513 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2516 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2520 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2523 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2527 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2530 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2531 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2532 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2533 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2538 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2541 files from installation.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2545 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2548 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2549 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2553 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2556 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2560 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2563 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2567 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2573 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2579 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2583 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2584 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2586 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2590 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2593 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2594 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2595 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2596 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2600 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2603 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2607 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2610 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2611 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2615 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2619 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2624 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2630 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2634 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2635 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2636 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2641 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2644 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2645 practice. Closes: #163303
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2649 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2662 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2665 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2667 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2668 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2669 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2670 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2671 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2675 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2678 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2683 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2689 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2696 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2699 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2704 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2710 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2716 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2722 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2729 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2732 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2733 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2734 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2735 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2740 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2746 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2753 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2756 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2757 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2761 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2764 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2765 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2766 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2767 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2768 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2772 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2775 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2777 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2782 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2785 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2789 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2792 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2793 right thing. Closes: #150644
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2797 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * Stupid, evil typo.
2800 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2804 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2811 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2814 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2815 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2820 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2826 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2829 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2833 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2836 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2837 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2842 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2845 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2849 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2855 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2858 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2859 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2863 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2869 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Removing perl warning message.
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2875 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2878 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2879 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2880 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2881 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2882 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2883 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2884 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2885 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2889 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2895 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2902 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2905 debconf-mergetemplate.
2906 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2907 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2911 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2914 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2915 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2916 dh_install, which ...
2917 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2918 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2919 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2920 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2921 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2922 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2923 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2924 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2925 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2926 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2927 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2928 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2929 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2930 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2931 other minor changes.
2932 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2933 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2934 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2935 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2936 course there's -X ..)
2937 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2938 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2939 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2941 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2942 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2943 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2944 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2945 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2950 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2956 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2959 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2963 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2969 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2975 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2981 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2987 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2990 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2991 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2992 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2993 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2995 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2996 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3000 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3006 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3009 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3013 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3016 upset. Closes: #131322
3018 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3020 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3023 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
3024 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3025 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3026 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3027 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3028 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3029 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3030 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3031 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3032 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3033 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3034 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3035 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3036 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3037 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3039 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3043 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3046 - Better indenting of generated code.
3047 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3051 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3055 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3056 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3057 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3058 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3059 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3060 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3061 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3065 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3068 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3072 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3075 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3076 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3077 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3078 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3079 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3080 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3081 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3082 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3083 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3084 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3085 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3086 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3087 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3088 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3089 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3094 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3100 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3103 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3104 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3108 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3111 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3112 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3116 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3122 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3125 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3126 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3127 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3128 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3129 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3134 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3140 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3143 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3147 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3150 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3155 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3161 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3164 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3168 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3174 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3178 Also some indentation fixes.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3182 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3185 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3186 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3187 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3188 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3189 Closes: #106514, #85520
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3193 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3199 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3205 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3211 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3217 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3223 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3226 change it in debhelper v4..
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3230 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3236 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3239 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3243 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3246 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3250 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3256 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3259 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3260 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3261 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3262 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3263 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3264 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3265 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3266 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3267 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3268 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3269 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3270 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3274 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3277 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3281 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3288 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3291 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3292 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3293 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3294 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3295 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3296 program those options go to. So, for example,
3297 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3298 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3299 something complex. Closes: #89311
3300 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3304 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3307 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3308 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3309 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3313 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3316 through loop. Closes: #98598
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3320 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Missing semi-colon.
3323 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3324 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3328 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3331 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3332 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3333 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3337 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3340 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3341 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3345 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3348 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3352 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3355 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3356 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3360 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3363 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3364 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3365 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3369 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3372 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3373 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3374 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3378 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3381 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3385 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3391 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3397 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3403 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3409 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3412 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3416 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3419 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3420 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3421 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3422 followed. Closes: #85483
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3426 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3428 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3429 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3430 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3434 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3437 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3438 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3439 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3440 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3441 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3442 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3443 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3444 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3445 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3446 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3447 Closes: #88464, #77743
3448 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3449 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3450 us to deal with that gracefully.
3451 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3453 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3454 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3455 a while, Closes: #51225
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3459 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3465 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3468 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3472 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3476 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3481 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3484 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3485 don't make packlist files.
3486 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3487 debhelper coding standards.
3488 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3489 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3493 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3496 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3500 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3503 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3504 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3505 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3506 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3507 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3508 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3509 but is mildly deprecated.
3510 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3511 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3512 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3513 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3514 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3515 switching to statoverrides..
3516 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3517 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3518 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3519 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3520 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3521 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3523 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3524 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3525 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3526 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3527 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3528 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3529 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3530 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3531 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3533 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3534 variable names, pod man pages).
3535 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3536 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3537 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3538 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3539 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3540 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3541 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3545 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3551 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3558 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3561 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3565 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3567 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3568 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3569 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3573 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3575 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3576 they were previously ignored.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3580 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3582 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3583 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3587 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3589 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3590 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3591 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3595 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3597 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3601 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3603 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3604 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3608 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3610 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3611 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3612 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3613 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3614 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3615 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3616 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3617 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3618 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3619 it is an obsolete program.
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3623 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3625 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3629 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3633 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3635 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3639 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3641 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3643 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3645 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3649 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3655 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * typo: Closes, #78567
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3661 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3667 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3673 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3676 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3677 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3678 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3679 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3680 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3684 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3687 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3692 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3695 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3696 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3697 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3698 backwards-compatability.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3702 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3705 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3706 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3707 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3708 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3709 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3710 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3712 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3713 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3714 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3716 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3718 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3719 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3720 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3721 should now be raised to severity important..
3722 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3723 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3727 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3730 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3735 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3741 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3747 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3753 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3760 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3763 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3764 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3765 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3766 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3776 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3779 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3780 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3781 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3782 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3783 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3784 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3789 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3792 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3796 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3802 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3805 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3810 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3813 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3814 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3815 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3816 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3820 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3824 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3827 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3830 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3831 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3834 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3836 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3837 the TODO entry about it.
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3841 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3848 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3851 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3852 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3856 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3859 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3860 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3861 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3862 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3866 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3872 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3879 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3882 (this appears to be logal).
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3886 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3889 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3890 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3891 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3892 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3896 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3902 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3905 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3906 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3907 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3908 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3912 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3918 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3921 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3925 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3932 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3935 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3936 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3937 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3942 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3949 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3955 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3958 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3959 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3960 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3961 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3962 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3963 notice until v2 is complete.
3964 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3965 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3966 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3967 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3968 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3969 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3971 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3972 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3973 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3974 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3978 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3984 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3991 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3994 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4005 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4008 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4009 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4010 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4011 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4016 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4019 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4020 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4021 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4026 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4029 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4030 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4034 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4037 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4041 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4044 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4048 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4055 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4058 depend on the build and install targets.
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4065 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4069 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4076 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4082 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4088 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4091 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4092 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4093 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4094 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4095 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4096 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4098 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4099 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4100 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4101 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4102 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4103 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4104 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4108 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4114 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4120 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4123 right place. Closes: #55065
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4127 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4134 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4137 * Copyright date updates.
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4141 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4144 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4149 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4155 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4162 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4168 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4174 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4180 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4183 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4184 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4185 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4186 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4187 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4188 bits until all files have been registered.
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4192 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * dh_installmanpages:
4195 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4196 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4197 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4198 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4199 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4200 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4201 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4202 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4203 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4204 otherwise change the result at all.
4206 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4207 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4208 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4209 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4210 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4215 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4221 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4224 act on files that don't exist.
4225 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4226 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4227 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4229 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4230 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4231 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4232 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4236 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4242 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4248 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4251 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4255 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4258 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4260 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4261 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4262 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4266 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4269 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4270 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4271 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4272 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4273 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4274 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4275 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4277 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4279 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4283 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4290 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4296 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4302 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4305 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4309 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4315 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4321 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4324 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4325 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4326 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4327 I made some changes, though:
4328 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4329 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4330 that is a clear violation of policy.
4331 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4332 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4333 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4334 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4335 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4336 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4337 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4338 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4339 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4341 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4345 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4351 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4354 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4358 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4361 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4362 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4373 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4380 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4383 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4384 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4385 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4386 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4387 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4388 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4389 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4403 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4404 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4408 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4414 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4417 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4421 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4424 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4425 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4429 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4431 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4436 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4440 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4444 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4447 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4448 for the dependancies to be generated.
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4452 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4455 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4459 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4462 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4463 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4464 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4469 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4472 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4473 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4477 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4483 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4489 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4492 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4496 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4502 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4505 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4506 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4507 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4508 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4509 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4510 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4511 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4512 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4513 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4514 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4515 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4516 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4520 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4523 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4524 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4526 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4527 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4528 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4529 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4530 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4531 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4533 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4534 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4538 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4541 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4545 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4552 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4555 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4560 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4563 for building debhelper.
4564 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4568 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4575 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4578 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4582 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4585 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4586 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4587 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4588 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4589 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4590 it's always available.
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4594 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4597 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4598 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4599 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4603 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4606 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4607 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4611 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4617 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4620 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4624 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4630 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4633 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4634 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4635 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4639 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4642 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4647 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4650 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4651 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4653 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4654 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4658 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4664 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4670 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4673 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4677 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4680 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4681 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4683 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4687 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4690 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4691 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4692 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4696 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4699 things if CDPATH is set.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4703 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4709 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4712 seems to make sense for the transition.
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4716 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4719 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4724 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4727 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4728 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4732 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4735 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4742 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4743 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4744 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4745 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4749 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4755 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4758 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4759 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4760 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4761 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4762 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4763 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4764 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4765 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4766 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4767 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4772 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4775 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4776 * README: mention doc/v2
4777 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4778 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4782 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4784 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4785 be using this script RSN.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4789 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4792 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4793 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4794 more than 1 init script.
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4798 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4801 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4805 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * Changed perl version detection.
4808 * Changed call to find.
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4812 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4815 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4817 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4822 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * Really include dh_installpam.
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4828 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4831 * Wrote man page for same.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4835 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4838 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4839 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4844 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4851 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4854 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4855 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4856 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4857 x bit was being set!
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4861 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4864 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4865 well. (Closes: 38900)
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4869 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4872 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4873 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4877 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4883 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4890 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4896 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4899 help from Julian Gilbey.
4900 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4901 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4902 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4903 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4904 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4905 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4906 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4911 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4913 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4917 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4924 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4930 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4936 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4939 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4943 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4946 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4950 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4953 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4957 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4963 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4966 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4970 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4976 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4982 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4985 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4986 may be deleted. (#35845)
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4990 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * Various man page enhancements.
4993 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4998 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5001 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5002 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5006 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5009 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5010 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5011 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5013 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5014 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5019 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5025 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * Another very minor typo fix.
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5031 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * Very minor typo fix.
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5037 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5040 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5041 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5045 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5051 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5054 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5055 variables properly (#34850).
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5059 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5065 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5068 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5069 (automatically generated by build process).
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5073 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5075 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5079 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5082 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5083 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5085 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5089 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5092 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5096 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * README: minor typo fix.
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5102 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5105 leave it at that. :-)
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5109 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5115 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5121 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5124 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5125 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5126 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5130 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5133 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5137 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5140 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5144 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5147 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5148 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5149 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5150 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5154 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5157 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5158 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5159 Craig Small for spotting this.
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5163 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5166 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5167 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5171 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5177 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5180 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5184 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5186 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5187 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5188 working on the last version of debhelper.
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5192 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5195 being made. (#23255)
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5199 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5205 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5208 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5212 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5215 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5216 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5217 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5218 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5222 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5225 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5226 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5227 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5228 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5230 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5231 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5233 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5238 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5244 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5250 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5253 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5254 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5255 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5256 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5257 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5258 suidregister actually supports it.
5259 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5260 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5264 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5271 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5274 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5275 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5276 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5277 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5278 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5279 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5280 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5284 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5286 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5287 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5291 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5294 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5295 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5296 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5297 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5301 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5304 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5306 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5307 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5308 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5309 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5310 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5311 effect, either. (#30118)
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5315 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5321 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5324 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5325 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5329 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5335 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5338 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5339 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5340 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5341 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5345 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5348 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5349 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5353 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5359 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5362 packages, painlessly.
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5366 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5372 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5378 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5384 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * The perl conversion is complete.
5388 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5390 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5391 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5392 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5397 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5400 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5401 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5402 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5406 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5409 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5411 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5413 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5414 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5418 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5421 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5422 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5426 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5432 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5434 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5435 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5436 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5437 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5438 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5439 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5443 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5446 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5447 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5448 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5449 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5453 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5456 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5460 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5462 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5463 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5464 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5465 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5466 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5467 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5468 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5469 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5470 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5474 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5480 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5483 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5484 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5485 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5490 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5493 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5497 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5500 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5504 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5507 sections of shared libraries.
5508 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5509 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5510 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5511 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5512 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5513 things you don't want them to.
5514 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5515 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5519 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5522 shared libraries. (#26414)
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5526 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5528 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5529 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5530 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5531 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5535 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5537 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5539 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5541 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5542 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5543 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5544 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5545 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5549 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5552 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5556 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5559 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5560 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5565 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5568 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5572 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5575 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5576 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5577 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5578 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5579 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5581 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5582 remove debian/files properly.
5583 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5584 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5585 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5586 * Removed bogus menu file.
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5590 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5593 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5597 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5600 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5601 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5602 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5603 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5604 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5605 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5609 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5612 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5613 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5614 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5615 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5619 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5626 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5629 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5630 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5632 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5633 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5634 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5635 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5636 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5637 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5641 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5644 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5645 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5646 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5647 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5648 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5649 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5650 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5651 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5652 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5653 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5654 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5655 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5656 passed any switches.
5657 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5661 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5664 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5665 at all for a long while.
5666 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5667 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5668 large chunks in the process.
5669 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5670 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5671 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5676 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5679 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5681 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5686 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5689 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5690 that don't always have the same files in them.
5691 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5692 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5693 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5697 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5701 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5702 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5703 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5704 updating 27 man pages.
5705 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5706 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5707 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5708 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5709 programs act on. (#25247)
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5713 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5717 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5718 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5719 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5720 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5721 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5722 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5727 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5734 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5741 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5744 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5748 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5754 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5757 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5758 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5759 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5760 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5761 package by accident.
5762 * Is version 1.0 next?
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5766 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5769 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5770 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5774 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5777 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5778 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5779 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5780 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5781 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5783 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5788 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5791 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5792 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5796 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5799 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5803 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5806 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5807 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5812 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5814 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5818 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5821 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5822 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5827 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5833 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5836 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5837 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5838 past week. Thanks, guys!
5840 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5841 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5842 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5843 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5844 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5845 would do in the same situation.
5846 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5847 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5849 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5851 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5852 permissions changed.
5853 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5854 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5855 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5856 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5857 files are treated identically.
5858 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5859 * Minor man page fixes.
5860 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5861 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5862 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5866 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5869 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5870 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5871 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5872 use -X multiple times, too.
5873 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5874 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5878 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5880 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5881 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5882 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5886 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5888 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5889 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5893 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5896 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5897 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5898 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5899 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5900 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5901 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5902 shape if you're starting a new package.
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5906 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5909 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5913 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5916 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5917 because of missing symlinks.
5919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5921 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5923 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5927 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5930 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5931 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5932 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5933 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5934 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5936 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5937 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5941 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5943 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5944 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5945 to be changed after the fact :-)
5946 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5950 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5952 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5953 no version string after the -V.
5955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5957 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5959 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5960 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5965 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5968 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5972 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5975 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5976 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5977 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5978 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5979 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5980 I always welcome corrections!
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5984 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5990 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5992 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5993 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5994 * Documented this new switch.
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5998 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6001 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6002 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6003 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6004 no packages use the old behavior.
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6008 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6010 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6011 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6012 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6016 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6019 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6023 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6029 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6031 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6032 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6036 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6039 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6040 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6041 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6045 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6051 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6054 into the source package by accident.
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6058 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6061 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6062 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6063 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6064 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6065 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6066 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6071 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6073 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6075 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6076 inspired to implement some of it.
6077 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6081 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6084 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6088 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6091 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6092 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6096 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6098 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6099 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6100 have done.) (#17598)
6102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6104 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6106 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6110 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6116 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6118 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6119 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6123 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6125 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6126 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6127 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6131 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6133 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6134 argument processor in perl.
6135 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6136 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6137 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6138 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6142 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6145 type directories. (#16933)
6146 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6147 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6148 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6149 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6150 are supported. (#16935)
6151 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6156 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6159 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6163 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6165 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6167 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6168 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6169 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6170 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6171 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6172 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6176 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6178 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6179 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6180 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6182 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6183 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6184 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6185 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6186 a given package, or -i or -a.
6187 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6188 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6189 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6190 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6191 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6192 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6193 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6194 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6195 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6197 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6198 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6199 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6203 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6206 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6207 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6212 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6214 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6215 does not have a section.
6217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6219 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6221 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6222 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6223 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6224 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6228 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * Fixed typo #16215.
6232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6234 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6236 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6237 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6238 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6239 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6240 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6241 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6246 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6248 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6249 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6250 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6251 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6256 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6258 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6262 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6268 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6270 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6271 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6272 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6273 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6274 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6275 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6276 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6280 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6282 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6286 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6289 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6293 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6296 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6297 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6298 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6302 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6304 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6305 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6309 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6311 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6315 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6317 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6318 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6322 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6324 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6325 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6329 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6331 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6335 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6337 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6338 postinst, postrm, etc.
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6342 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6344 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6348 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6351 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6352 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6353 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6354 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6355 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6359 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6361 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6362 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6363 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6367 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6369 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6370 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6374 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6376 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6377 installing package files into.
6378 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6383 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6385 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6387 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6391 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6397 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6399 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6400 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6404 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6406 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6407 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6408 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6409 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6410 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6414 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6416 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6417 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6418 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6419 multiple binary packages.
6420 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6421 should rebuild them with this version.
6422 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6426 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6428 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6429 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6433 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6435 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6436 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6440 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6442 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6443 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6444 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6445 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6446 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6447 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6448 debian/README.debian.
6449 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6450 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6451 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6452 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6453 in a few situations.)
6455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6457 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6459 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6463 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6465 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6469 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6471 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6472 * Fixed several man pages.
6474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6476 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6478 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6479 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6480 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6484 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6486 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6487 is ready for general use.
6488 * Added man pages for all commands.
6489 * Multiple binary package support.
6490 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6491 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6492 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6494 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6495 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6496 auto-installed as parameters.
6497 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6499 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6502 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6503 the package build directory it is to act on.
6504 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6505 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6506 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6510 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6512 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6513 ready to replace debstd.
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400