1 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
4 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
5 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
6 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
7 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
12 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
14 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
18 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
21 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
22 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
23 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
24 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
25 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
27 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
28 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
29 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
30 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
31 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
32 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
36 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
39 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
40 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
41 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
42 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
43 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
45 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
49 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
51 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
55 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
57 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
58 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
59 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
60 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
61 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
62 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
63 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
64 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
65 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
66 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
67 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
71 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
73 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
74 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
76 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
77 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
78 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
79 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
81 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
82 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
86 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
88 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
89 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
90 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
91 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
92 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
93 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
94 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
96 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
97 that uses them. Affected options are:
98 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
99 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
100 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
101 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
102 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
103 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
104 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
105 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
106 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
107 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
108 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
109 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
113 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
120 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
126 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
128 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
129 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
131 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
132 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
133 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
134 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
135 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
137 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
139 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
140 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
141 rules (see bug #509756).
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
145 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
151 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
152 * Typo. Closes: #493062
153 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
154 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
158 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
161 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
162 empty files. Closes: #490937
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
166 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
168 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
172 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
179 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
182 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
183 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
184 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
185 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
190 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
192 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
193 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
194 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
195 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
199 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
202 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
203 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
204 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
205 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
206 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
210 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
217 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
219 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
220 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
221 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
222 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
223 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
224 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
225 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
226 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
227 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
228 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
232 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
235 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
236 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
237 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
238 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
240 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
241 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
242 breaking backwards compatability.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
246 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
248 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
249 message in perl 5.10.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
253 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
259 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Convert copyright file to new format.
262 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
266 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
269 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
273 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
276 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
277 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
278 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
279 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
280 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
281 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
282 logging by dh_listpackages.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
286 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
289 run and there are no packages of that type.
290 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
291 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
292 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
293 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
295 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
296 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
300 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
302 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
303 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
304 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
308 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
311 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
312 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
314 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
315 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
316 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
317 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
318 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
319 planned but not yet implemented.)
320 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
321 if the Makefile has such a target.
322 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
323 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
324 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
325 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
326 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
327 but not yet implemented.)
328 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
329 recommended default, especially when using dh.
330 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
331 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
332 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
334 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
336 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
337 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
339 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
340 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
341 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
346 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
349 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
350 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
354 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
356 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
357 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
358 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
362 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
368 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
374 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
377 just those installed by the program.
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
381 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
383 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
384 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
385 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
389 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
392 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
393 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
394 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
395 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
399 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
402 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
403 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
407 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
410 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
411 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
415 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
418 with policy. Closes: #461392
419 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
420 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
421 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
422 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
423 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
427 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
430 Closes: #460340, #460351
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
434 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
437 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
438 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
439 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
440 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
444 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
447 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
448 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
449 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
450 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
451 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
452 package build directory won't work.
453 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
454 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
455 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
456 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
457 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
458 mode. Closes: #459426
459 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
464 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
467 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
471 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
475 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
476 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
477 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
478 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
479 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
480 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
484 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
487 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
488 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
489 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
490 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
494 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
497 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
498 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
499 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
500 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
501 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
505 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
508 debian/package.triggers files.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
512 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
514 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
515 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
519 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
522 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
523 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
524 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
525 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
530 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
533 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
537 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
540 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
541 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
543 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
548 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
552 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
553 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
554 * Typo. Closes: #441272
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
558 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
565 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
572 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
575 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
577 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
578 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
579 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
581 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
582 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
583 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
587 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
590 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
591 * Update urls to web page.
592 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
594 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
595 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
599 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
602 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
603 - typo in alternatives call
604 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
606 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
607 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
611 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
614 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
619 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
625 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
627 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
631 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
634 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
636 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
637 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
638 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
639 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
640 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
641 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
642 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
643 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
644 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
645 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
646 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
650 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
653 package install. Closes: #415717
654 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
655 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
656 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
657 script and then remove the python files.
658 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
659 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
660 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
661 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
662 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
663 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
664 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
665 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
666 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
667 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
668 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
669 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
670 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
674 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Correct typo in french translation
680 * Typo. Closes: #400571
681 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
683 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
685 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
686 Closes: #406921, #381940
687 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
689 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
690 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
691 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
692 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
693 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
694 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
695 specified). Closes: #381851
696 * Misc minor changes.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
700 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
707 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
708 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
712 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
718 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
719 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
722 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
723 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
725 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
726 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
727 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
728 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
732 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
735 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
738 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
742 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
748 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
754 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
755 a difficult situation.
756 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
757 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
758 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
759 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
760 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
761 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
762 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
763 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
764 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
765 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
769 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Non-maintainer upload.
772 * Update of dh_python
773 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
774 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
776 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
777 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
778 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
779 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
780 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
782 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
784 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Non-maintainer upload.
787 * Update of dh_python
788 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
789 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
790 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
791 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
792 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
793 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
794 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
795 specific python version. Closes: #373853
796 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
797 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
799 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
800 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
801 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
802 the not too-distant future).
803 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
804 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
805 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
806 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
807 thus made the build fail.
809 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
811 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Non-maintainer upload.
814 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
816 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
818 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
821 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
822 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
823 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
824 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
825 package. Closes: #301424
826 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
827 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
828 fonts). Closes: #372686
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
832 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
838 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
839 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
840 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
841 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
842 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
843 above, but already depends on that.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
847 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
850 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
851 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
852 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
853 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
854 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
858 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
864 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
870 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
871 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
875 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
878 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
882 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
886 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
887 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
888 new version (0.24.1).
889 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
890 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
893 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
894 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
895 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
896 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
897 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
898 new directory on their own.
899 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
900 * Fix broken directory removal code.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
904 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
907 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
908 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
909 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
910 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
914 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
917 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
918 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
919 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
920 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
921 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
925 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
931 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
934 * Typo. Closes: #358904
935 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
936 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
940 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
941 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
945 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
947 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
948 || exit 0 instead of the intended
950 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
951 ignored. Closes: #337664
953 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
958 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
964 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
969 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
970 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
971 the dh_installdebconf manpage
972 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
973 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
974 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
975 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
979 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
982 version. Closes: #350607
983 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
984 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
985 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
986 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
990 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
993 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
994 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
995 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
999 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1006 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1012 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1015 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1019 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1022 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1023 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1024 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1025 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1026 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1027 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1031 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1034 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1035 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1040 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1043 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1047 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1050 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1054 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1057 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1058 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1059 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1060 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1061 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1062 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1066 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1070 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1071 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1072 link. Closes: #346405
1073 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1075 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1076 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1077 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1078 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1079 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1080 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1081 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1085 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1092 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1098 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1101 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1105 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1108 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1113 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1117 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1118 installed. Closes: #342033
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1122 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1125 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1126 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1127 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1132 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1138 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1144 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1148 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1149 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1150 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1154 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1157 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1162 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1169 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1175 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1178 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1179 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1180 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1181 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1182 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1183 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1184 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1186 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1190 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1193 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1194 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1198 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1201 in standard man dirs.
1202 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1206 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1212 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1215 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1220 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1227 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1234 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1237 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1238 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1242 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1245 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1246 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1247 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1249 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1251 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1257 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1263 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1266 mode. Closes: #324161
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1270 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1273 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1274 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1275 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1276 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1281 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1284 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1285 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1286 is necesary for sanity.
1287 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1288 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1293 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1295 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1296 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1300 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1303 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1307 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1313 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1316 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1317 released, so use at your own risk.
1318 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1319 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1321 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1322 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1323 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1324 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1325 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1326 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1327 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1328 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1329 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1330 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1331 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1332 including twice per config file line now..
1333 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1334 and simplfy the rules file.
1335 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1336 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1337 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1339 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1340 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1344 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1347 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1351 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1354 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1358 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1361 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1365 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1368 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1369 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1370 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1371 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1372 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1373 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1377 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1380 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1381 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1382 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1387 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1390 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1391 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1396 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1399 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1400 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1401 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1406 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1409 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1410 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1411 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1415 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1421 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1428 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1431 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1432 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1433 unknown. Closes: #282924
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1437 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1444 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Spanish man page updates.
1447 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1452 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1458 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1461 * dh_desktop: reindent
1462 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1463 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1467 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1473 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1475 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1479 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1481 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1485 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1488 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1489 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1493 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1499 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1505 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1512 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1515 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1519 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1522 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1523 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1524 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1525 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1526 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1527 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1529 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1530 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1531 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1532 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1533 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1534 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1535 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1536 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1537 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1538 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1539 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1540 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1541 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1542 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1543 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1544 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1548 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1555 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1558 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1562 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1565 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1569 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1572 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1576 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1579 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1583 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1589 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1595 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1601 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1604 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1605 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1606 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1610 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1613 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1617 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1620 but occasionally right and necessary.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1624 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1627 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1628 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1629 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1630 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1631 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1635 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1638 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1640 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1641 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1642 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1643 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1644 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1645 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1646 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1647 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1648 postinst scripts for udebs.
1649 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1653 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1656 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1658 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1659 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1663 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1669 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1676 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1683 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1686 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1690 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1693 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1697 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1700 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1703 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1704 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1708 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1714 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1717 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1721 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1724 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1725 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1726 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1728 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1730 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1731 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1732 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1736 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1739 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1744 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1747 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1748 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1749 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1754 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1760 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1766 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1769 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1770 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1771 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1772 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1773 associated -dbg packages.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1777 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1780 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1784 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1787 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1791 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1794 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1798 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1801 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1806 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1809 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1813 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1816 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1821 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1824 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1828 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1832 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1833 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1834 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1835 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1836 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1837 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1838 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1839 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1840 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1841 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1845 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1848 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1853 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1856 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1857 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1861 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1864 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1865 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1870 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1873 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1877 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1880 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1884 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1887 out section number. Closes: #204731
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1891 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1898 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1904 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1910 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1913 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1914 removal. Closes: #204286
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1918 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1921 renaming. Closes: #203548
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1925 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1928 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1929 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1939 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1945 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1951 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1954 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1955 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1956 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1960 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1963 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1964 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1968 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1974 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1981 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1984 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1989 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1992 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1999 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2001 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2002 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2006 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2009 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2017 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2029 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2033 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2036 it break hard links (see #188663).
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2040 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2043 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2047 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2053 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2057 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2058 debconf-mergetemplates
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2062 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2065 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2069 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2072 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2076 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2079 * Update debhelper(1).
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2083 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2086 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2087 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2088 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2089 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2090 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2094 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2097 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2098 the shell. Closes: #178524
2099 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2103 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2106 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2110 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2113 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2117 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2120 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2121 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2122 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2123 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2128 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2131 files from installation.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2135 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2138 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2139 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2143 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2146 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2150 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2153 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2157 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2163 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2169 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2173 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2174 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2176 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2180 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2183 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2184 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2185 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2186 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2190 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2193 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2197 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2200 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2201 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2205 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2209 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2214 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2220 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2224 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2225 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2226 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2231 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2234 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2235 practice. Closes: #163303
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2245 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2252 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2255 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2257 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2258 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2259 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2260 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2261 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2265 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2268 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2273 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2279 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2286 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2289 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2300 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2306 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2312 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2319 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2322 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2323 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2324 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2325 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2330 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2346 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2347 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2354 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2355 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2356 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2357 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2358 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2362 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2365 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2367 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2375 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2379 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2382 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2383 right thing. Closes: #150644
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Stupid, evil typo.
2390 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2394 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2401 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2404 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2405 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2410 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2416 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2419 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2423 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2426 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2427 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2432 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2435 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2439 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2445 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2448 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2449 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2453 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2459 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Removing perl warning message.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2465 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2468 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2469 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2470 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2471 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2472 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2473 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2474 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2475 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2479 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2485 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2492 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2495 debconf-mergetemplate.
2496 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2497 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2504 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2505 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2506 dh_install, which ...
2507 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2508 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2509 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2510 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2511 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2512 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2513 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2514 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2515 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2516 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2517 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2518 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2519 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2520 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2521 other minor changes.
2522 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2523 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2524 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2525 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2526 course there's -X ..)
2527 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2528 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2529 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2531 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2532 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2533 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2534 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2535 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2540 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2546 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2549 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2553 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2559 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2565 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2571 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2577 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2580 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2581 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2582 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2583 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2585 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2586 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2590 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2596 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2599 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2603 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2606 upset. Closes: #131322
2608 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2610 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2613 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2614 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2615 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2616 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2617 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2618 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2619 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2620 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2621 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2622 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2623 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2624 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2625 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2626 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2627 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2629 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2633 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2636 - Better indenting of generated code.
2637 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2641 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2645 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2646 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2647 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2648 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2649 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2650 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2651 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2655 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2658 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2662 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2665 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2666 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2667 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2668 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2669 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2670 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2671 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2672 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2673 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2674 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2675 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2676 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2677 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2678 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2679 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2684 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2690 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2693 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2694 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2698 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2701 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2702 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2706 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2712 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2715 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2716 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2717 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2718 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2719 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2724 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2730 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2733 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2737 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2740 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2745 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2751 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2754 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2758 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2764 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2768 Also some indentation fixes.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2772 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2775 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2776 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2777 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2778 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2779 Closes: #106514, #85520
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2783 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2789 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2795 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2801 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2807 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2813 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2816 change it in debhelper v4..
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2820 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2826 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2829 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2833 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2836 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2840 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2846 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2849 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2850 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2851 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2852 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2853 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2854 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2855 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2856 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2857 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2858 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2859 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2860 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2864 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2867 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2871 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2878 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2881 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2882 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2883 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2884 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2885 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2886 program those options go to. So, for example,
2887 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2888 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2889 something complex. Closes: #89311
2890 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2894 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2897 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2898 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2899 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2903 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2906 through loop. Closes: #98598
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2910 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Missing semi-colon.
2913 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2914 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2918 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2921 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2922 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2923 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2927 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2930 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2931 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2935 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2938 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2942 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2945 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2946 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2950 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2953 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2954 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2955 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2959 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2962 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2963 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2964 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2968 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2971 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2975 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2981 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2987 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2993 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2999 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3002 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3006 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3009 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3010 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3011 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3012 followed. Closes: #85483
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3016 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3018 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3019 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3020 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3024 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3027 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3028 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3029 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3030 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3031 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3032 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3033 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3034 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3035 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3036 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3037 Closes: #88464, #77743
3038 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3039 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3040 us to deal with that gracefully.
3041 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3043 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3044 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3045 a while, Closes: #51225
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3049 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3055 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3058 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3062 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3066 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3071 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3074 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3075 don't make packlist files.
3076 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3077 debhelper coding standards.
3078 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3079 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3083 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3086 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3090 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3093 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3094 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3095 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3096 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3097 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3098 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3099 but is mildly deprecated.
3100 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3101 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3102 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3103 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3104 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3105 switching to statoverrides..
3106 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3107 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3108 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3109 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3110 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3111 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3113 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3114 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3115 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3116 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3117 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3118 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3119 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3120 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3121 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3123 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3124 variable names, pod man pages).
3125 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3126 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3127 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3128 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3129 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3130 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3131 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3135 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3141 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3148 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3151 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3155 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3157 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3158 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3159 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3163 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3165 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3166 they were previously ignored.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3170 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3172 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3173 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3177 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3179 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3180 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3181 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3185 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3187 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3191 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3193 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3194 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3198 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3200 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3201 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3202 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3203 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3204 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3205 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3206 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3207 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3208 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3209 it is an obsolete program.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3213 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3215 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3219 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3223 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3225 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3229 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3231 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3233 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3235 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3239 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3245 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * typo: Closes, #78567
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3251 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3257 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3263 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3266 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3267 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3268 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3269 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3270 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3274 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3277 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3282 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3285 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3286 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3287 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3288 backwards-compatability.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3292 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3295 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3296 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3297 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3298 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3299 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3300 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3302 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3303 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3304 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3306 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3308 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3309 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3310 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3311 should now be raised to severity important..
3312 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3313 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3317 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3320 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3325 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3331 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3337 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3343 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3350 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3353 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3354 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3355 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3356 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3360 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3366 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3369 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3370 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3371 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3372 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3373 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3374 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3379 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3382 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3386 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3392 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3395 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3400 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3403 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3404 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3405 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3406 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3410 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3414 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3417 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3420 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3421 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3424 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3426 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3427 the TODO entry about it.
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3431 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3438 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3441 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3442 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3446 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3449 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3450 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3451 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3452 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3456 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3462 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3469 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3472 (this appears to be logal).
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3476 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3479 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3480 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3481 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3482 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3486 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3492 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3495 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3496 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3497 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3498 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3502 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3508 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3511 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3515 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3522 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3525 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3526 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3527 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3532 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3539 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3545 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3548 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3549 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3550 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3551 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3552 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3553 notice until v2 is complete.
3554 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3555 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3556 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3557 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3558 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3559 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3561 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3562 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3563 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3564 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3568 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3574 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3581 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3584 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3588 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3595 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3598 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3599 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3600 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3601 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3606 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3609 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3610 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3611 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3616 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3619 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3620 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3624 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3627 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3634 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3638 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3645 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3648 depend on the build and install targets.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3652 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3655 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3659 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3666 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3672 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3678 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3681 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3682 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3683 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3684 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3685 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3686 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3688 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3689 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3690 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3691 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3692 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3693 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3694 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3698 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3704 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3710 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3713 right place. Closes: #55065
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3717 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3724 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3727 * Copyright date updates.
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3731 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3734 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3739 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3745 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3752 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3758 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3764 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3773 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3774 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3775 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3776 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3777 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3778 bits until all files have been registered.
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3782 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * dh_installmanpages:
3785 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3786 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3787 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3788 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3789 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3790 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3791 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3792 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3793 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3794 otherwise change the result at all.
3796 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3797 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3798 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3799 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3800 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3805 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3811 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3814 act on files that don't exist.
3815 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3816 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3817 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3819 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3820 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3821 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3822 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3826 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3832 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3838 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3841 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3845 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3848 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3850 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3851 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3852 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3856 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3859 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3860 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3861 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3862 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3863 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3864 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3865 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3867 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3869 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3873 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3880 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3886 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3892 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3895 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3899 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3905 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3911 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3914 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3915 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3916 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3917 I made some changes, though:
3918 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3919 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3920 that is a clear violation of policy.
3921 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3922 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3923 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3924 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3925 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3926 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3927 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3928 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3929 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3931 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3935 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3941 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3944 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3948 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3951 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3952 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3957 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3963 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3970 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3973 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3974 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3975 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3976 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3977 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3978 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3979 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3983 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3989 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3993 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3994 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4004 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4007 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4011 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4014 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4015 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4019 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4021 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4026 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4030 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4034 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4037 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4038 for the dependancies to be generated.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4042 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4045 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4049 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4052 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4053 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4054 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4059 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4062 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4063 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4067 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4073 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4079 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4082 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4086 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4092 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4095 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4096 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4097 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4098 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4099 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4100 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4101 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4102 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4103 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4104 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4105 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4106 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4110 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4113 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4114 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4116 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4117 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4118 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4119 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4120 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4121 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4123 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4124 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4128 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4131 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4135 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4142 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4145 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4153 for building debhelper.
4154 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4158 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4165 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4168 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4172 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4175 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4176 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4177 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4178 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4179 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4180 it's always available.
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4184 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4187 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4188 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4189 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4193 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4196 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4197 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4201 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4207 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4210 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4214 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4216 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4220 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4223 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4224 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4225 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4232 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4240 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4241 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4243 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4244 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4254 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4260 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4263 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4267 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4270 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4271 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4273 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4280 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4281 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4282 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4286 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4289 things if CDPATH is set.
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4293 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4299 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4302 seems to make sense for the transition.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4306 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4309 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4314 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4317 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4318 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4322 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4325 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4329 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4332 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4333 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4334 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4335 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4339 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4345 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4348 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4349 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4350 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4351 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4352 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4353 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4354 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4355 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4356 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4357 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4362 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4365 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4366 * README: mention doc/v2
4367 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4368 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4372 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4374 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4375 be using this script RSN.
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4379 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4382 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4383 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4384 more than 1 init script.
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4388 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4391 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4395 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * Changed perl version detection.
4398 * Changed call to find.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4402 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4405 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4407 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4412 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * Really include dh_installpam.
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4418 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4421 * Wrote man page for same.
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4425 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4428 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4429 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4434 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4441 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4444 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4445 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4446 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4447 x bit was being set!
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4451 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4454 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4455 well. (Closes: 38900)
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4459 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4462 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4463 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4467 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4473 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4480 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4486 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4489 help from Julian Gilbey.
4490 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4491 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4492 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4493 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4494 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4495 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4496 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4501 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4507 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4509 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4514 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4520 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4526 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4529 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4533 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4536 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4540 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4543 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4547 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4553 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4556 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4560 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4566 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4572 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4575 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4576 may be deleted. (#35845)
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4580 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Various man page enhancements.
4583 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4588 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4591 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4592 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4596 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4599 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4600 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4601 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4603 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4604 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4609 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4615 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * Another very minor typo fix.
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4621 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * Very minor typo fix.
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4627 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4630 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4631 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4635 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4641 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4644 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4645 variables properly (#34850).
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4649 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4655 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4658 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4659 (automatically generated by build process).
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4663 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4665 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4669 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4672 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4673 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4675 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4679 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4682 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4686 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * README: minor typo fix.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4692 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4695 leave it at that. :-)
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4699 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4705 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4711 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4714 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4715 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4716 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4720 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4723 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4727 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4730 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4734 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4737 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4738 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4739 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4740 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4744 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4747 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4748 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4749 Craig Small for spotting this.
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4753 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4756 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4757 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4761 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4767 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4770 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4774 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4776 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4777 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4778 working on the last version of debhelper.
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4782 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4785 being made. (#23255)
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4789 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4795 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4798 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4802 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4805 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4806 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4807 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4808 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4812 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4815 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4816 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4817 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4818 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4820 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4821 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4823 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4828 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4834 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4840 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4843 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4844 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4845 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4846 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4847 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4848 suidregister actually supports it.
4849 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4850 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4854 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4861 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4864 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4865 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4866 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4867 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4868 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4869 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4870 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4874 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4876 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4877 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4881 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4883 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4884 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4885 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4886 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4887 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4891 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4894 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4896 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4897 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4898 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4899 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4900 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4901 effect, either. (#30118)
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4905 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4911 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4913 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4914 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4915 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4919 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4925 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4928 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4929 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4930 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4931 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4935 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4938 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4939 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4943 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4949 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4952 packages, painlessly.
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4956 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4962 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4968 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4974 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * The perl conversion is complete.
4978 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4980 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4981 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4982 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4987 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4990 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4991 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4992 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4996 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4999 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5001 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5003 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5004 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5008 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5011 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5012 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5016 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5022 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5025 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5026 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5027 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5028 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5029 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5033 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5036 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5037 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5038 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5039 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5043 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5046 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5050 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5053 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5054 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5055 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5056 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5057 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5058 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5059 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5060 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5064 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5070 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5073 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5074 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5075 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5080 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5083 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5087 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5090 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5094 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5097 sections of shared libraries.
5098 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5099 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5100 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5101 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5102 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5103 things you don't want them to.
5104 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5105 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5109 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5112 shared libraries. (#26414)
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5116 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5118 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5119 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5120 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5121 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5125 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5127 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5129 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5131 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5132 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5133 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5134 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5135 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5139 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5142 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5146 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5149 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5150 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5155 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5158 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5162 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5165 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5166 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5167 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5168 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5169 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5171 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5172 remove debian/files properly.
5173 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5174 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5175 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5176 * Removed bogus menu file.
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5180 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5183 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5187 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5190 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5191 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5192 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5193 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5194 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5195 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5199 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5202 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5203 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5204 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5205 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5209 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5216 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5218 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5219 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5220 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5222 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5223 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5224 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5225 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5226 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5227 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5231 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5234 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5235 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5236 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5237 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5238 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5239 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5240 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5241 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5242 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5243 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5244 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5245 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5246 passed any switches.
5247 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5251 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5254 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5255 at all for a long while.
5256 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5257 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5258 large chunks in the process.
5259 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5260 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5261 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5266 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5269 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5271 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5276 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5279 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5280 that don't always have the same files in them.
5281 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5282 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5283 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5287 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5291 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5292 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5293 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5294 updating 27 man pages.
5295 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5296 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5297 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5298 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5299 programs act on. (#25247)
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5303 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5307 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5308 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5309 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5310 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5311 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5312 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5317 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5324 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5331 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5334 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5338 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5344 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5347 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5348 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5349 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5350 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5351 package by accident.
5352 * Is version 1.0 next?
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5356 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5359 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5360 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5364 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5367 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5368 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5369 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5370 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5371 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5373 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5378 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5381 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5382 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5386 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5389 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5393 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5395 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5396 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5397 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5402 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5404 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5408 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5411 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5412 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5417 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5423 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5426 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5427 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5428 past week. Thanks, guys!
5430 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5431 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5432 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5433 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5434 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5435 would do in the same situation.
5436 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5437 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5439 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5441 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5442 permissions changed.
5443 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5444 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5445 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5446 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5447 files are treated identically.
5448 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5449 * Minor man page fixes.
5450 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5451 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5452 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5456 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5459 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5460 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5461 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5462 use -X multiple times, too.
5463 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5464 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5468 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5471 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5472 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5476 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5479 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5483 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5486 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5487 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5488 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5489 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5490 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5491 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5492 shape if you're starting a new package.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5496 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5499 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5503 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5506 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5507 because of missing symlinks.
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5511 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5517 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5520 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5521 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5522 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5523 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5524 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5526 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5527 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5531 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5533 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5534 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5535 to be changed after the fact :-)
5536 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5540 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5542 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5543 no version string after the -V.
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5547 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5549 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5550 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5555 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5558 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5562 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5565 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5566 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5567 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5568 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5569 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5570 I always welcome corrections!
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5574 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5580 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5583 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5584 * Documented this new switch.
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5588 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5591 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5592 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5593 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5594 no packages use the old behavior.
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5598 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5601 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5602 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5606 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5609 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5613 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5619 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5621 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5622 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5626 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5629 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5630 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5631 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5635 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5641 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5644 into the source package by accident.
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5648 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5651 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5652 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5653 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5654 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5655 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5656 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5661 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5665 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5666 inspired to implement some of it.
5667 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5671 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5674 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5678 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5681 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5682 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5686 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5689 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5690 have done.) (#17598)
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5694 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5700 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5706 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5709 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5713 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5716 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5717 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5721 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5724 argument processor in perl.
5725 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5726 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5727 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5728 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5732 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5735 type directories. (#16933)
5736 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5737 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5738 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5739 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5740 are supported. (#16935)
5741 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5746 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5749 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5753 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5755 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5757 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5758 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5759 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5760 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5761 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5762 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5766 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5769 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5770 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5772 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5773 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5774 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5775 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5776 a given package, or -i or -a.
5777 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5778 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5779 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5780 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5781 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5782 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5783 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5784 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5785 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5787 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5788 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5789 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5793 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5795 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5796 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5797 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5802 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5805 does not have a section.
5807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5809 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5811 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5812 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5813 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5814 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5818 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * Fixed typo #16215.
5822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5824 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5827 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5828 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5829 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5830 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5831 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5836 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5839 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5840 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5841 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5846 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5848 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5852 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5858 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5861 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5862 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5863 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5864 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5865 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5866 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5870 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5876 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5878 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5879 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5883 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5885 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5886 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5887 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5888 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5892 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5895 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5899 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5905 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5908 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5912 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5915 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5919 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5925 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5928 postinst, postrm, etc.
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5932 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5938 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5940 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5941 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5942 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5943 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5944 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5945 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5949 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5952 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5953 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5957 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5959 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5960 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5964 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5967 installing package files into.
5968 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5973 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5977 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5981 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5983 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5987 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5989 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5990 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5994 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5996 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5997 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5998 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5999 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6000 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6004 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6006 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6007 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6008 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6009 multiple binary packages.
6010 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6011 should rebuild them with this version.
6012 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6016 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6019 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6023 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6026 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6030 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6032 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6033 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6034 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6035 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6036 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6037 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6038 debian/README.debian.
6039 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6040 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6041 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6042 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6043 in a few situations.)
6045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6047 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6049 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6053 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6059 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6062 * Fixed several man pages.
6064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6066 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6068 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6069 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6070 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6074 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6076 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6077 is ready for general use.
6078 * Added man pages for all commands.
6079 * Multiple binary package support.
6080 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6081 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6082 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6084 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6085 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6086 auto-installed as parameters.
6087 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6089 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6092 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6093 the package build directory it is to act on.
6094 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6095 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6096 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6100 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6102 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6103 ready to replace debstd.
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400