1 debhelper (7.0.17) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
7 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
8 * Typo. Closes: #493062
9 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
10 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
12 -- Per Olofsson <pelle@debian.org> Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:52:14 +0200
14 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
17 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
18 empty files. Closes: #490937
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
22 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
28 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
35 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
38 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
39 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
40 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
41 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
46 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
48 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
49 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
50 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
51 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
55 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
58 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
59 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
60 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
61 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
62 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
66 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
73 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
75 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
76 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
77 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
78 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
79 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
80 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
81 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
82 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
83 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
84 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
88 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
90 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
91 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
92 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
93 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
94 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
96 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
97 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
98 breaking backwards compatability.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
102 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
105 message in perl 5.10.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
109 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
111 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
115 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Convert copyright file to new format.
118 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
122 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
125 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
129 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
132 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
133 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
134 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
135 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
136 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
137 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
138 logging by dh_listpackages.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
142 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
145 run and there are no packages of that type.
146 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
147 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
148 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
149 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
151 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
152 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
156 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
158 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
159 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
160 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
164 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
167 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
168 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
170 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
171 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
172 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
173 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
174 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
175 planned but not yet implemented.)
176 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
177 if the Makefile has such a target.
178 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
179 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
180 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
181 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
182 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
183 but not yet implemented.)
184 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
185 recommended default, especially when using dh.
186 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
187 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
188 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
190 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
192 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
193 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
195 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
196 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
197 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
202 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
205 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
206 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
210 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
212 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
213 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
214 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
218 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
224 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
230 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
233 just those installed by the program.
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
237 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
240 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
241 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
245 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
248 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
249 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
250 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
251 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
255 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
258 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
259 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
263 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
266 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
267 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
271 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
274 with policy. Closes: #461392
275 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
276 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
277 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
278 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
279 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
283 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
286 Closes: #460340, #460351
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
290 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
293 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
294 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
295 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
296 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
300 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
303 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
304 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
305 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
306 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
307 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
308 package build directory won't work.
309 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
310 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
311 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
312 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
313 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
314 mode. Closes: #459426
315 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
320 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
323 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
327 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
331 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
332 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
333 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
334 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
335 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
336 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
340 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
343 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
344 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
345 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
346 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
350 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
353 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
354 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
355 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
356 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
357 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
361 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
364 debian/package.triggers files.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
368 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
371 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
375 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
378 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
379 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
380 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
381 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
386 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
389 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
393 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
396 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
397 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
399 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
404 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
408 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
409 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
410 * Typo. Closes: #441272
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
414 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
421 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
428 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
430 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
431 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
433 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
434 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
435 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
437 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
438 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
439 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
443 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
446 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
447 * Update urls to web page.
448 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
450 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
451 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
455 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
458 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
459 - typo in alternatives call
460 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
462 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
463 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
467 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
470 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
475 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
477 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
481 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
487 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
490 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
492 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
493 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
494 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
495 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
496 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
497 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
498 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
499 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
500 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
501 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
502 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
506 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
508 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
509 package install. Closes: #415717
510 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
511 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
512 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
513 script and then remove the python files.
514 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
515 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
516 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
517 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
518 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
519 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
520 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
521 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
522 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
523 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
524 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
525 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
526 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
530 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
533 * Correct typo in french translation
536 * Typo. Closes: #400571
537 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
539 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
541 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
542 Closes: #406921, #381940
543 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
545 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
546 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
547 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
548 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
549 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
550 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
551 specified). Closes: #381851
552 * Misc minor changes.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
556 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
563 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
564 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
568 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
574 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
575 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
578 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
579 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
581 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
582 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
583 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
584 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
588 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
591 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
594 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
598 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
604 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
610 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
611 a difficult situation.
612 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
613 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
614 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
615 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
616 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
617 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
618 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
619 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
620 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
621 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
625 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
627 * Non-maintainer upload.
628 * Update of dh_python
629 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
630 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
632 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
633 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
634 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
635 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
636 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
638 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
640 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Non-maintainer upload.
643 * Update of dh_python
644 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
645 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
646 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
647 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
648 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
649 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
650 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
651 specific python version. Closes: #373853
652 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
653 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
655 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
656 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
657 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
658 the not too-distant future).
659 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
660 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
661 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
662 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
663 thus made the build fail.
665 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
667 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Non-maintainer upload.
670 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
672 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
674 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
677 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
678 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
679 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
680 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
681 package. Closes: #301424
682 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
683 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
684 fonts). Closes: #372686
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
688 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
694 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
695 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
696 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
697 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
698 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
699 above, but already depends on that.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
703 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
706 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
707 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
708 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
709 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
710 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
714 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
716 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
720 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
726 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
727 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
731 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
734 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
738 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
742 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
743 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
744 new version (0.24.1).
745 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
746 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
749 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
750 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
751 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
752 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
753 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
754 new directory on their own.
755 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
756 * Fix broken directory removal code.
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
760 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
763 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
764 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
765 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
766 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
770 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
773 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
774 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
775 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
776 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
777 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
781 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
787 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Typo. Closes: #358904
791 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
792 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
796 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
797 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
801 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
803 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
804 || exit 0 instead of the intended
806 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
807 ignored. Closes: #337664
809 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
814 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
820 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
825 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
826 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
827 the dh_installdebconf manpage
828 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
829 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
830 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
831 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
835 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
838 version. Closes: #350607
839 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
840 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
841 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
842 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
846 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
849 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
850 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
851 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
855 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
862 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Minor bug fix from last release.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
868 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
871 language guessing. Closes: #193221
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
875 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
878 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
879 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
880 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
881 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
882 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
883 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
887 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
890 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
891 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
896 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
899 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
903 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
906 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
910 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
913 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
914 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
915 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
916 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
917 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
918 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
922 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
925 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
926 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
927 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
928 link. Closes: #346405
929 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
932 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
933 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
934 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
935 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
936 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
937 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
941 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
948 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
950 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
954 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
957 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
961 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
964 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
969 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
973 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
974 installed. Closes: #342033
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
978 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
981 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
982 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
983 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
988 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
990 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
994 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1000 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1004 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1005 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1006 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1010 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1013 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1018 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1025 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1031 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1034 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1035 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1036 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1037 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1038 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1039 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1040 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1042 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1046 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1049 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1050 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1054 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1057 in standard man dirs.
1058 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1062 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1068 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1071 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1076 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1083 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1090 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1093 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1094 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1098 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1101 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1102 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1103 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1105 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1107 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1113 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1119 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1122 mode. Closes: #324161
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1126 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1129 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1130 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1131 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1132 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1137 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1140 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1141 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1142 is necesary for sanity.
1143 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1144 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1149 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1151 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1152 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1156 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1159 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1163 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1169 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1172 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1173 released, so use at your own risk.
1174 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1175 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1177 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1178 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1179 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1180 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1181 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1182 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1183 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1184 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1185 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1186 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1187 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1188 including twice per config file line now..
1189 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1190 and simplfy the rules file.
1191 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1192 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1193 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1195 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1196 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1200 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1203 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1207 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1210 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1214 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1217 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1221 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1224 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1225 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1226 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1227 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1228 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1229 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1233 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1236 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1237 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1238 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1243 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1246 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1247 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1252 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1255 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1256 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1257 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1262 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1265 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1266 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1267 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1271 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1277 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1284 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1287 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1288 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1289 unknown. Closes: #282924
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1293 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1300 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Spanish man page updates.
1303 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1308 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1314 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1317 * dh_desktop: reindent
1318 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1319 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1323 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1329 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1331 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1335 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1337 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1341 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1344 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1345 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1349 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1355 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1361 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1368 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1371 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1375 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1378 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1379 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1380 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1381 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1382 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1383 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1385 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1386 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1387 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1388 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1389 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1390 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1391 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1392 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1393 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1394 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1395 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1396 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1397 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1398 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1399 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1400 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1404 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1411 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1414 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1418 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1421 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1425 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1428 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1432 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1435 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1439 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1445 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1451 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1457 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1460 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1461 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1462 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1466 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1469 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1473 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1476 but occasionally right and necessary.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1480 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1483 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1484 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1485 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1486 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1487 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1491 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1494 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1496 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1497 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1498 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1499 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1500 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1501 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1502 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1503 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1504 postinst scripts for udebs.
1505 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1509 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1512 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1514 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1515 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1519 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1525 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1532 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1539 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1542 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1546 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1549 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1553 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1556 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1559 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1560 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1564 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1570 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1573 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1577 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1580 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1581 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1582 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1584 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1586 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1587 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1588 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1592 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1595 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1600 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1603 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1604 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1605 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1610 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1616 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1622 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1625 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1626 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1627 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1628 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1629 associated -dbg packages.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1633 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1636 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1640 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1643 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1647 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1650 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1654 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1657 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1662 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1665 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1669 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1672 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1677 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1680 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1684 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1688 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1689 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1690 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1691 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1692 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1693 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1694 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1695 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1696 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1697 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1701 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1704 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1709 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1712 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1713 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1717 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1720 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1721 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1726 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1729 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1733 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1736 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1740 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1743 out section number. Closes: #204731
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1747 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1754 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1760 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1766 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1769 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1770 removal. Closes: #204286
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1774 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1777 renaming. Closes: #203548
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1781 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1784 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1785 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1789 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1795 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1801 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1807 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1810 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1811 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1812 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1816 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1819 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1820 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1824 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1830 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1837 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1840 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1845 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1848 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1852 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1855 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1857 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1858 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1862 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1865 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1870 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1873 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1877 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1883 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1885 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1889 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1892 it break hard links (see #188663).
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1896 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1899 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1903 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1909 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1913 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1914 debconf-mergetemplates
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1918 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1921 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1925 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1928 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1932 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1935 * Update debhelper(1).
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1939 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1942 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1943 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1944 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1945 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1946 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1950 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1953 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1954 the shell. Closes: #178524
1955 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1959 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1962 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1966 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1969 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1973 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1976 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1977 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1978 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1979 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1984 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1987 files from installation.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1991 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1994 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1995 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1999 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2002 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2006 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2009 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2013 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2019 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2025 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2029 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2030 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2032 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2036 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2039 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2040 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2041 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2042 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2046 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2049 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2053 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2056 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2057 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2061 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2065 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2070 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2076 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2080 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2081 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2082 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2090 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2091 practice. Closes: #163303
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2095 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2101 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2108 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2111 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2113 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2114 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2115 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2116 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2117 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2121 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2124 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2129 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2142 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2145 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2150 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2156 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2162 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2168 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2178 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2179 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2180 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2181 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2186 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2192 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2199 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2202 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2203 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2207 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2210 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2211 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2212 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2213 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2214 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2218 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2221 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2223 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2228 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2231 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2235 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2238 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2239 right thing. Closes: #150644
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2243 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Stupid, evil typo.
2246 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2250 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2257 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2260 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2261 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2266 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2272 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2275 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2279 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2282 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2283 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2288 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2291 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2295 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2304 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2305 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2309 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2315 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Removing perl warning message.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2321 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2324 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2325 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2326 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2327 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2328 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2329 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2330 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2331 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2335 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2351 debconf-mergetemplate.
2352 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2353 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2357 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2360 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2361 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2362 dh_install, which ...
2363 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2364 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2365 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2366 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2367 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2368 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2369 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2370 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2371 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2372 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2373 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2374 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2375 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2376 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2377 other minor changes.
2378 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2379 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2380 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2381 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2382 course there's -X ..)
2383 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2384 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2385 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2387 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2388 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2389 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2390 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2391 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2396 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2402 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2405 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2409 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2415 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2421 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2427 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2433 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2436 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2437 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2438 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2439 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2441 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2442 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2446 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2452 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2455 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2459 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2462 upset. Closes: #131322
2464 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2466 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2469 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2470 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2471 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2472 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2473 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2474 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2475 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2476 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2477 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2478 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2479 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2480 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2481 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2482 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2483 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2485 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2489 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2492 - Better indenting of generated code.
2493 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2497 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2501 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2502 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2503 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2504 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2505 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2506 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2507 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2511 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2514 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2518 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2521 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2522 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2523 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2524 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2525 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2526 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2527 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2528 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2529 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2530 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2531 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2532 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2533 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2534 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2535 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2540 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2546 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2549 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2550 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2554 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2557 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2558 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2562 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2568 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2571 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2572 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2573 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2574 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2575 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2580 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2586 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2589 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2593 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2596 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2601 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2607 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2610 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2614 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2620 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2624 Also some indentation fixes.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2628 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2631 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2632 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2633 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2634 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2635 Closes: #106514, #85520
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2639 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2645 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2651 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2657 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2663 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2669 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2672 change it in debhelper v4..
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2676 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2682 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2685 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2689 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2692 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2696 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2702 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2705 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2706 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2707 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2708 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2709 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2710 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2711 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2712 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2713 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2714 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2715 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2716 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2720 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2723 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2727 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2734 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2737 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2738 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2739 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2740 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2741 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2742 program those options go to. So, for example,
2743 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2744 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2745 something complex. Closes: #89311
2746 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2750 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2753 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2754 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2755 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2759 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2762 through loop. Closes: #98598
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2766 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Missing semi-colon.
2769 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2770 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2774 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2777 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2778 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2779 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2783 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2786 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2787 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2791 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2794 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2798 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2801 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2802 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2806 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2809 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2810 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2811 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2815 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2818 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2819 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2820 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2824 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2827 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2831 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2837 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2843 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2849 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2855 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2858 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2862 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2865 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2866 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2867 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2868 followed. Closes: #85483
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2872 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2874 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2875 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2876 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2880 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2883 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2884 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2885 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2886 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2887 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2888 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2889 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2890 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2891 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2892 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2893 Closes: #88464, #77743
2894 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2895 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2896 us to deal with that gracefully.
2897 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2899 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2900 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2901 a while, Closes: #51225
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2905 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2911 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2914 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2918 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2922 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2927 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2930 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2931 don't make packlist files.
2932 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2933 debhelper coding standards.
2934 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2935 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2939 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2942 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2946 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2949 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2950 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2951 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2952 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2953 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2954 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2955 but is mildly deprecated.
2956 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2957 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2958 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2959 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2960 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2961 switching to statoverrides..
2962 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2963 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2964 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2965 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2966 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2967 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2969 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2970 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2971 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2972 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2973 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2974 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2975 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2976 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2977 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2979 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2980 variable names, pod man pages).
2981 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2982 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2983 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2984 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2985 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2986 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2987 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2991 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2997 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3004 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3007 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3011 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3013 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3014 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3015 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3019 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3021 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3022 they were previously ignored.
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3026 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3028 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3029 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3033 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3035 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3036 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3037 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3041 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3043 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3047 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3049 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3050 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3054 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3056 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3057 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3058 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3059 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3060 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3061 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3062 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3063 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3064 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3065 it is an obsolete program.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3069 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3071 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3075 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3079 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3081 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3085 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3087 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3089 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3091 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3095 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3101 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * typo: Closes, #78567
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3107 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3113 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3119 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3122 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3123 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3124 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3125 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3126 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3130 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3133 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3138 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3141 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3142 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3143 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3144 backwards-compatability.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3148 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3151 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3152 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3153 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3154 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3155 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3156 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3158 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3159 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3160 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3162 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3164 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3165 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3166 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3167 should now be raised to severity important..
3168 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3169 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3173 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3176 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3181 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3187 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3193 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3199 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3206 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3209 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3210 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3211 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3212 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3216 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3222 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3225 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3226 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3227 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3228 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3229 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3230 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3235 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3238 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3242 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3248 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3251 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3256 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3259 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3260 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3261 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3262 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3266 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3270 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3273 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3276 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3277 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3280 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3282 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3283 the TODO entry about it.
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3287 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3294 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3297 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3298 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3302 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3305 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3306 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3307 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3308 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3312 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3318 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3325 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3328 (this appears to be logal).
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3332 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3335 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3336 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3337 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3338 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3342 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3348 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3351 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3352 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3353 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3354 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3358 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3364 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3367 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3371 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3378 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3381 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3382 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3383 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3388 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3395 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3401 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3404 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3405 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3406 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3407 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3408 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3409 notice until v2 is complete.
3410 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3411 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3412 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3413 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3414 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3415 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3417 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3418 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3419 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3420 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3424 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3430 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3437 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3440 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3444 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3451 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3454 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3455 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3456 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3457 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3462 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3465 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3466 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3467 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3472 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3475 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3476 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3480 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3483 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3487 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3490 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3494 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3501 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3504 depend on the build and install targets.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3508 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3511 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3515 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3522 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3528 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3534 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3537 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3538 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3539 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3540 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3541 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3542 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3544 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3545 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3546 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3547 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3548 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3549 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3550 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3554 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3560 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3566 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3569 right place. Closes: #55065
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3573 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3580 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3583 * Copyright date updates.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3587 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3590 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3595 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3601 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3608 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3614 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3620 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3626 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3629 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3630 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3631 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3632 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3633 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3634 bits until all files have been registered.
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3638 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_installmanpages:
3641 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3642 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3643 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3644 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3645 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3646 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3647 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3648 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3649 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3650 otherwise change the result at all.
3652 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3653 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3654 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3655 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3656 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3661 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3667 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3670 act on files that don't exist.
3671 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3672 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3673 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3675 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3676 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3677 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3678 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3682 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3688 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3694 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3697 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3701 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3704 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3706 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3707 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3708 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3712 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3715 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3716 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3717 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3718 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3719 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3720 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3721 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3723 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3725 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3729 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3736 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3742 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3748 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3751 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3755 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3761 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3767 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3770 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3771 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3772 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3773 I made some changes, though:
3774 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3775 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3776 that is a clear violation of policy.
3777 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3778 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3779 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3780 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3781 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3782 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3783 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3784 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3785 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3787 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3791 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3797 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3800 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3804 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3807 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3808 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3813 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3819 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3826 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3829 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3830 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3831 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3832 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3833 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3834 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3835 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3839 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3845 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3849 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3850 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3854 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3860 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3863 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3867 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3870 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3871 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3875 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3877 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3882 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3886 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3890 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3893 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3894 for the dependancies to be generated.
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3898 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3901 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3905 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3908 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3909 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3910 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3915 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3918 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3919 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3923 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3929 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3935 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3938 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3942 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3948 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3951 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3952 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3953 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3954 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3955 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3956 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3957 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3958 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3959 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3960 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3961 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3962 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3966 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3969 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3970 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3972 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3973 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3974 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3975 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3976 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3977 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3979 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3980 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3984 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3987 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3991 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4001 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4006 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4009 for building debhelper.
4010 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4014 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4021 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4023 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4024 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4028 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4031 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4032 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4033 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4034 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4035 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4036 it's always available.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4040 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4043 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4044 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4045 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4049 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4052 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4053 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4057 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4063 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4066 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4076 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4079 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4080 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4081 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4085 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4088 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4093 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4096 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4097 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4099 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4100 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4110 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4116 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4119 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4123 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4126 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4127 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4129 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4133 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4136 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4137 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4138 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4142 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4145 things if CDPATH is set.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4149 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4155 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4158 seems to make sense for the transition.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4162 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4165 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4170 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4173 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4174 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4178 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4181 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4185 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4188 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4189 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4190 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4191 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4195 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4201 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4204 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4205 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4206 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4207 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4208 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4209 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4210 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4211 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4212 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4213 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4218 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4221 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4222 * README: mention doc/v2
4223 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4224 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4228 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4230 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4231 be using this script RSN.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4235 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4238 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4239 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4240 more than 1 init script.
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4244 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4247 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4251 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * Changed perl version detection.
4254 * Changed call to find.
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4258 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4261 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4263 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4268 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * Really include dh_installpam.
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4274 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4277 * Wrote man page for same.
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4281 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4284 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4285 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4290 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4297 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4300 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4301 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4302 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4303 x bit was being set!
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4307 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4310 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4311 well. (Closes: 38900)
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4315 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4318 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4319 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4323 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4329 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4336 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4342 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4345 help from Julian Gilbey.
4346 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4347 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4348 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4349 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4350 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4351 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4352 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4357 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4363 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4370 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4376 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4382 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4385 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4389 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4392 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4396 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4399 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4403 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4409 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4412 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4416 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4422 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4428 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4431 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4432 may be deleted. (#35845)
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4436 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * Various man page enhancements.
4439 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4444 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4447 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4448 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4452 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4455 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4456 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4457 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4459 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4460 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4465 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4471 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * Another very minor typo fix.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4477 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * Very minor typo fix.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4483 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4486 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4487 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4491 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4497 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4500 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4501 variables properly (#34850).
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4505 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4511 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4514 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4515 (automatically generated by build process).
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4519 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4521 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4525 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4528 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4529 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4531 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4535 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4538 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4542 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * README: minor typo fix.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4548 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4551 leave it at that. :-)
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4555 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4561 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4567 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4570 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4571 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4572 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4576 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4579 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4583 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4586 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4590 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4593 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4594 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4595 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4596 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4600 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4603 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4604 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4605 Craig Small for spotting this.
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4609 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4612 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4613 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4617 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4623 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4626 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4630 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4632 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4633 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4634 working on the last version of debhelper.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4638 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4641 being made. (#23255)
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4645 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4651 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4654 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4658 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4661 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4662 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4663 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4664 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4668 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4671 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4672 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4673 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4674 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4676 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4677 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4679 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4684 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4690 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4696 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4699 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4700 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4701 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4702 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4703 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4704 suidregister actually supports it.
4705 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4706 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4710 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4717 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4720 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4721 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4722 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4723 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4724 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4725 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4726 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4730 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4732 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4733 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4737 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4740 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4741 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4742 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4743 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4747 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4750 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4752 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4753 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4754 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4755 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4756 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4757 effect, either. (#30118)
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4761 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4767 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4769 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4770 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4771 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4775 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4781 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4784 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4785 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4786 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4787 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4791 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4794 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4795 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4799 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4805 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4808 packages, painlessly.
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4812 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4818 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4824 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4830 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * The perl conversion is complete.
4834 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4836 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4837 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4838 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4843 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4846 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4847 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4848 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4852 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4855 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4857 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4859 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4860 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4864 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4867 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4868 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4872 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4878 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4881 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4882 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4883 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4884 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4885 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4889 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4892 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4893 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4894 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4895 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4899 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4902 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4906 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4909 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4910 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4911 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4912 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4913 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4914 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4915 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4916 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4920 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4926 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4929 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4930 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4931 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4936 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4939 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4943 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4946 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4950 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4953 sections of shared libraries.
4954 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4955 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4956 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4957 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4958 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4959 things you don't want them to.
4960 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4961 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4965 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4968 shared libraries. (#26414)
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4972 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4974 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4975 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4976 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4977 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4981 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4985 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4987 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4988 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4989 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4990 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4991 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4995 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4998 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5002 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5005 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5006 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5011 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5014 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5018 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5021 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5022 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5023 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5024 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5025 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5027 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5028 remove debian/files properly.
5029 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5030 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5031 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5032 * Removed bogus menu file.
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5036 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5039 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5043 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5046 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5047 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5048 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5049 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5050 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5051 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5055 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5058 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5059 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5060 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5061 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5065 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5072 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5075 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5076 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5078 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5079 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5080 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5081 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5082 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5083 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5087 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5090 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5091 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5092 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5093 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5094 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5095 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5096 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5097 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5098 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5099 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5100 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5101 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5102 passed any switches.
5103 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5107 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5110 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5111 at all for a long while.
5112 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5113 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5114 large chunks in the process.
5115 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5116 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5117 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5122 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5125 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5127 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5132 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5135 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5136 that don't always have the same files in them.
5137 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5138 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5139 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5143 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5147 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5148 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5149 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5150 updating 27 man pages.
5151 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5152 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5153 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5154 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5155 programs act on. (#25247)
5157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5159 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5163 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5164 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5165 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5166 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5167 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5168 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5173 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5180 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5187 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5190 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5194 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5200 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5203 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5204 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5205 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5206 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5207 package by accident.
5208 * Is version 1.0 next?
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5212 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5215 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5216 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5220 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5223 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5224 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5225 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5226 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5227 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5229 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5234 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5237 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5238 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5242 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5245 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5249 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5252 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5253 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5258 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5264 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5267 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5268 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5273 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5279 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5282 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5283 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5284 past week. Thanks, guys!
5286 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5287 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5288 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5289 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5290 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5291 would do in the same situation.
5292 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5293 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5295 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5297 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5298 permissions changed.
5299 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5300 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5301 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5302 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5303 files are treated identically.
5304 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5305 * Minor man page fixes.
5306 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5307 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5308 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5312 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5315 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5316 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5317 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5318 use -X multiple times, too.
5319 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5320 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5324 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5327 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5328 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5332 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5335 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5339 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5342 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5343 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5344 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5345 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5346 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5347 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5348 shape if you're starting a new package.
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5352 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5355 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5359 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5362 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5363 because of missing symlinks.
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5367 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5373 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5376 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5377 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5378 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5379 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5380 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5382 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5383 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5387 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5389 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5390 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5391 to be changed after the fact :-)
5392 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5396 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5398 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5399 no version string after the -V.
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5403 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5405 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5406 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5411 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5414 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5418 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5421 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5422 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5423 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5424 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5425 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5426 I always welcome corrections!
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5430 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5436 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5439 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5440 * Documented this new switch.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5444 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5447 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5448 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5449 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5450 no packages use the old behavior.
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5454 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5457 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5458 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5462 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5465 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5469 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5475 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5478 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5482 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5485 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5486 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5487 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5491 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5497 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5500 into the source package by accident.
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5504 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5507 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5508 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5509 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5510 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5511 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5512 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5517 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5521 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5522 inspired to implement some of it.
5523 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5527 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5530 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5534 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5537 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5538 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5542 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5545 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5546 have done.) (#17598)
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5550 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5556 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5562 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5565 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5569 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5572 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5573 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5577 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5580 argument processor in perl.
5581 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5582 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5583 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5584 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5588 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5591 type directories. (#16933)
5592 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5593 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5594 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5595 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5596 are supported. (#16935)
5597 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5602 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5605 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5609 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5613 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5614 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5615 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5616 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5617 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5618 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5622 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5625 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5626 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5628 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5629 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5630 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5631 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5632 a given package, or -i or -a.
5633 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5634 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5635 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5636 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5637 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5638 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5639 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5640 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5641 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5643 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5644 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5645 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5649 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5652 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5653 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5658 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5661 does not have a section.
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5665 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5668 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5669 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5670 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5674 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * Fixed typo #16215.
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5680 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5683 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5684 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5685 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5686 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5687 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5692 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5695 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5696 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5697 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5702 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5704 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5708 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5714 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5716 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5717 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5718 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5719 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5720 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5721 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5722 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5726 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5732 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5735 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5739 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5742 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5743 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5744 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5748 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5750 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5751 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5755 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5761 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5764 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5768 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5771 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5775 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5781 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5784 postinst, postrm, etc.
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5788 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5794 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5797 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5798 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5799 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5800 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5801 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5805 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5808 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5809 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5813 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5816 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5820 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5823 installing package files into.
5824 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5829 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5833 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5837 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5843 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5846 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5850 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5853 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5854 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5855 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5856 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5860 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5862 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5863 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5864 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5865 multiple binary packages.
5866 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5867 should rebuild them with this version.
5868 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5872 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5875 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5879 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5881 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5882 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5886 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5888 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5889 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5890 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5891 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5892 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5893 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5894 debian/README.debian.
5895 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5896 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5897 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5898 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5899 in a few situations.)
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5903 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5909 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5911 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5915 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5917 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5918 * Fixed several man pages.
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5922 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5924 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5925 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5926 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5930 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5932 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5933 is ready for general use.
5934 * Added man pages for all commands.
5935 * Multiple binary package support.
5936 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5937 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5938 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5940 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5941 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5942 auto-installed as parameters.
5943 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5945 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5948 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5949 the package build directory it is to act on.
5950 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5951 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5952 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5956 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5958 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5959 ready to replace debstd.
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400