1 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
4 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
5 flag with arch all/any packages.
6 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
7 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
8 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
9 situation. Closes: #540794
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
13 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
15 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
17 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
18 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
19 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
20 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
21 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
24 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
25 the default. Closes: #538201
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
30 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
34 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
35 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
36 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
37 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
38 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
40 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
41 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
42 * Above Closes: #491117
43 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
48 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
54 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
55 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
56 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
60 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
63 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
64 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
65 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
66 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
67 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
72 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
75 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
76 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
80 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
82 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
86 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
88 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
89 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
91 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
92 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
93 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
97 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
99 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
100 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
104 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
110 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
112 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
113 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
114 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
119 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
121 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
125 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
128 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
129 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
130 created by using `python' first during build and install.
132 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
137 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
139 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
143 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
145 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
146 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
150 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
152 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
156 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
158 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
162 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
164 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
165 contributed by Modestas Vainius
166 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
167 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
168 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
169 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
170 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
171 that support it. Closes: #480577
172 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
173 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
174 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
176 - Adds support for cmake.
177 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
178 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
180 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
182 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
183 that use them. The options are:
184 --sourcedir, --destdir
185 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
186 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
187 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
188 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
189 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
193 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
195 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
199 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
202 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
203 default. Closes: #537140
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
207 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
210 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
211 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
215 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
218 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
222 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
225 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
229 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
232 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
234 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
235 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
236 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
240 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
243 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
244 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
245 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
249 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
252 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
253 warning or deprecation message.
254 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
255 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
256 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
257 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
258 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
259 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
260 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
261 Closes: #534639, #357434
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
265 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
267 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
271 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
274 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
275 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
276 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
277 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
279 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
280 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
281 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
285 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
291 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
293 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
298 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
301 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
305 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
309 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
310 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
312 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
313 file support. Closes: #494914
314 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
318 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
321 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
322 parameters. Closes: #527256
323 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
324 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
325 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
329 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
333 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
334 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
335 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
339 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
342 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
343 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
344 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
348 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
351 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
352 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
354 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
355 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
356 by triggers). Closes: #521181
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
360 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
362 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
364 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
368 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
371 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
372 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
373 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
374 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
379 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
385 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
388 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
389 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
390 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
391 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
392 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
394 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
395 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
396 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
397 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
398 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
399 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
403 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
406 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
407 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
408 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
409 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
410 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
412 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
416 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
418 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
422 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
424 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
425 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
426 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
427 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
428 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
429 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
430 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
431 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
432 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
433 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
434 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
438 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
440 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
441 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
443 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
444 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
445 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
446 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
448 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
449 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
453 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
455 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
456 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
457 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
458 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
459 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
460 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
461 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
463 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
464 that uses them. Affected options are:
465 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
466 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
467 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
468 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
469 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
470 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
471 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
472 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
473 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
474 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
475 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
476 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
480 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
487 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
493 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
495 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
496 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
498 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
499 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
500 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
501 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
502 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
504 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
506 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
507 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
508 rules (see bug #509756).
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
512 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
518 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
519 * Typo. Closes: #493062
520 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
521 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
525 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
528 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
529 empty files. Closes: #490937
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
533 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
539 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
546 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
549 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
550 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
551 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
552 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
557 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
559 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
560 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
561 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
562 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
566 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
569 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
570 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
571 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
572 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
573 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
577 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
584 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
586 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
587 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
588 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
589 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
590 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
591 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
592 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
593 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
594 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
595 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
599 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
602 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
603 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
604 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
605 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
607 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
608 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
609 breaking backwards compatability.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
613 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
616 message in perl 5.10.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
620 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
626 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Convert copyright file to new format.
629 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
633 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
636 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
640 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
643 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
644 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
645 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
646 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
647 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
648 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
649 logging by dh_listpackages.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
653 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
656 run and there are no packages of that type.
657 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
658 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
659 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
660 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
662 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
663 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
667 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
669 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
670 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
671 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
675 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
678 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
679 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
681 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
682 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
683 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
684 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
685 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
686 planned but not yet implemented.)
687 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
688 if the Makefile has such a target.
689 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
690 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
691 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
692 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
693 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
694 but not yet implemented.)
695 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
696 recommended default, especially when using dh.
697 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
698 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
699 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
701 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
703 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
704 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
706 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
707 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
708 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
713 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
716 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
717 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
721 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
723 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
724 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
725 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
729 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
735 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
741 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
744 just those installed by the program.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
748 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
751 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
752 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
756 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
759 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
760 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
761 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
762 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
766 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
768 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
769 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
770 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
774 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
777 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
778 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
782 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
785 with policy. Closes: #461392
786 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
787 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
788 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
789 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
790 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
794 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
797 Closes: #460340, #460351
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
801 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
804 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
805 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
806 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
807 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
811 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
814 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
815 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
816 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
817 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
818 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
819 package build directory won't work.
820 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
821 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
822 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
823 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
824 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
825 mode. Closes: #459426
826 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
831 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
834 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
838 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
842 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
843 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
844 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
845 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
846 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
847 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
851 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
854 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
855 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
856 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
857 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
861 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
864 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
865 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
866 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
867 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
868 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
872 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
875 debian/package.triggers files.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
879 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
882 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
886 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
888 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
889 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
890 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
891 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
892 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
897 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
900 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
904 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
907 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
908 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
910 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
915 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
919 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
920 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
921 * Typo. Closes: #441272
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
925 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
932 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
934 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
939 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
942 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
944 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
945 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
946 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
948 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
949 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
950 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
954 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
957 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
958 * Update urls to web page.
959 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
961 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
962 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
966 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
969 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
970 - typo in alternatives call
971 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
973 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
974 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
978 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
981 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
986 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
992 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
998 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1001 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1003 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1004 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1005 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1006 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1007 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1008 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1009 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1010 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1011 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1012 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1013 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1017 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1020 package install. Closes: #415717
1021 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1022 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1023 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1024 script and then remove the python files.
1025 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1026 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1027 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1028 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1029 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1030 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1031 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1032 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1033 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1034 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1035 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1036 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1037 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1041 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Correct typo in french translation
1047 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1048 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1050 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1052 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1053 Closes: #406921, #381940
1054 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1056 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1057 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1058 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1059 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1060 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1061 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1062 specified). Closes: #381851
1063 * Misc minor changes.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1067 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1074 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1075 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1079 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1085 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1086 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1089 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1090 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1092 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1093 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1094 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1095 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1099 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1102 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1105 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1109 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1115 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1121 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1122 a difficult situation.
1123 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1124 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1125 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1126 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1127 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1128 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1129 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1130 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1131 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1132 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1136 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Non-maintainer upload.
1139 * Update of dh_python
1140 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1141 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1143 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1144 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1145 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1146 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1147 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1149 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1151 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Non-maintainer upload.
1154 * Update of dh_python
1155 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1156 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1157 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1158 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1159 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1160 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1161 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1162 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1163 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1164 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1166 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1167 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1168 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1169 the not too-distant future).
1170 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1171 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1172 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1173 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1174 thus made the build fail.
1176 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1178 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Non-maintainer upload.
1181 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1183 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1185 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1188 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1189 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1190 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1191 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1192 package. Closes: #301424
1193 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1194 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1195 fonts). Closes: #372686
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1199 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1205 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1206 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1207 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1208 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1209 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1210 above, but already depends on that.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1214 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1217 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1218 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1219 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1220 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1221 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1225 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1231 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1237 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1238 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1242 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1245 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1249 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1253 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1254 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1255 new version (0.24.1).
1256 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1257 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1260 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1261 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1262 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1263 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1264 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1265 new directory on their own.
1266 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1267 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1271 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1274 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1275 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1276 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1277 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1281 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1284 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1285 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1286 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1287 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1288 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1292 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1298 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1302 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1303 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1307 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1308 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1312 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1314 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1315 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1317 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1318 ignored. Closes: #337664
1320 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1325 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1331 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1336 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1337 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1338 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1339 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1340 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1341 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1342 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1346 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1349 version. Closes: #350607
1350 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1351 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1352 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1353 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1357 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1360 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1361 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1362 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1366 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1373 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1379 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1382 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1386 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1389 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1390 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1391 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1392 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1393 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1394 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1398 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1401 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1402 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1407 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1410 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1414 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1417 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1421 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1424 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1425 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1426 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1427 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1428 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1429 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1433 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1437 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1438 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1439 link. Closes: #346405
1440 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1442 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1443 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1444 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1445 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1446 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1447 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1448 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1452 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1459 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1465 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1468 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1472 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1475 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1480 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1484 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1485 installed. Closes: #342033
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1489 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1492 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1493 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1494 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1499 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1505 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1511 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1515 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1516 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1517 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1521 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1524 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1529 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1536 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1542 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1545 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1546 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1547 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1548 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1549 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1550 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1551 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1553 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1557 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1560 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1561 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1565 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1568 in standard man dirs.
1569 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1573 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1579 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1582 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1587 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1594 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1601 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1604 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1605 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1609 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1612 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1613 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1614 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1616 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1618 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1624 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1630 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1633 mode. Closes: #324161
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1637 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1640 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1641 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1642 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1643 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1648 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1651 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1652 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1653 is necesary for sanity.
1654 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1655 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1660 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1662 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1663 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1667 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1670 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1674 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1680 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1683 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1684 released, so use at your own risk.
1685 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1686 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1688 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1689 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1690 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1691 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1692 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1693 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1694 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1695 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1696 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1697 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1698 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1699 including twice per config file line now..
1700 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1701 and simplfy the rules file.
1702 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1703 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1704 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1706 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1707 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1711 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1714 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1718 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1721 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1725 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1728 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1732 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1735 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1736 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1737 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1738 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1739 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1740 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1744 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1747 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1748 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1749 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1754 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1757 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1758 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1763 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1766 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1767 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1768 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1773 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1776 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1777 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1778 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1782 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1788 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1795 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1798 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1799 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1800 unknown. Closes: #282924
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1804 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1811 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Spanish man page updates.
1814 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1819 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1825 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1828 * dh_desktop: reindent
1829 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1830 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1834 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1840 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1842 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1846 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1848 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1852 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1855 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1856 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1860 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1866 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1872 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1879 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1882 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1886 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1889 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1890 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1891 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1892 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1893 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1894 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1896 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1897 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1898 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1899 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1900 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1901 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1902 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1903 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1904 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1905 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1906 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1907 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1908 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1909 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1910 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1911 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1915 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1925 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1929 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1932 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1936 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1939 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1943 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1946 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1950 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1956 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1962 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1968 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1971 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1972 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1973 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1977 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1980 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1984 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1987 but occasionally right and necessary.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1991 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1994 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1995 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1996 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1997 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1998 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2002 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2005 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2007 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2008 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2009 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2010 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2011 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2012 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2013 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2014 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2015 postinst scripts for udebs.
2016 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2020 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2023 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2025 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2026 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2030 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2036 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2043 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2050 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2053 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2057 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2060 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2064 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2067 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2070 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2071 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2075 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2081 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2084 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2088 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2091 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2092 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2093 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2095 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2097 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2098 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2099 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2103 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2106 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2111 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2114 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2115 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2116 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2121 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2127 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2133 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2136 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2137 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2138 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2139 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2140 associated -dbg packages.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2144 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2147 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2151 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2154 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2158 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2161 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2165 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2168 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2173 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2176 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2180 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2183 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2188 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2191 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2195 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2199 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2200 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2201 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2202 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2203 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2204 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2205 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2206 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2207 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2208 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2212 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2215 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2220 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2223 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2224 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2228 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2231 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2232 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2237 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2240 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2244 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2247 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2251 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2254 out section number. Closes: #204731
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2258 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2265 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2271 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2277 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2280 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2281 removal. Closes: #204286
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2285 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2288 renaming. Closes: #203548
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2292 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2295 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2296 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2300 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2306 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2312 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2318 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2321 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2322 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2323 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2327 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2330 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2331 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2335 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2351 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2356 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2359 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2363 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2366 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2368 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2369 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2373 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2376 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2381 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2384 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2388 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2394 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2396 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2403 it break hard links (see #188663).
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2407 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2410 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2414 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2420 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2424 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2425 debconf-mergetemplates
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2429 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2432 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2436 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2439 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2443 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2446 * Update debhelper(1).
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2450 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2453 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2454 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2455 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2456 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2457 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2461 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2464 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2465 the shell. Closes: #178524
2466 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2470 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2473 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2477 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2480 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2484 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2487 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2488 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2489 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2490 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2495 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2498 files from installation.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2502 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2505 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2506 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2510 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2513 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2517 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2520 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2524 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2530 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2536 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2540 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2541 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2543 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2547 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2550 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2551 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2552 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2553 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2557 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2560 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2564 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2567 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2568 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2572 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2576 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2581 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2587 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2591 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2592 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2593 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2598 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2601 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2602 practice. Closes: #163303
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2606 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2612 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2619 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2622 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2624 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2625 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2626 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2627 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2628 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2632 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2635 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2640 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2646 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2653 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2656 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2661 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2667 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2673 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2679 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2686 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2689 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2690 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2691 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2692 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2697 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2703 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2710 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2713 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2714 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2718 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2721 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2722 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2723 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2724 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2725 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2729 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2732 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2734 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2739 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2742 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2746 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2749 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2750 right thing. Closes: #150644
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2754 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Stupid, evil typo.
2757 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2761 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2768 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2771 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2772 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2777 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2783 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2786 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2790 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2793 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2794 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2799 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2802 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2806 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2812 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2815 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2816 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2820 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2826 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Removing perl warning message.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2832 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2835 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2836 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2837 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2838 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2839 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2840 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2841 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2842 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2846 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2852 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2859 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2862 debconf-mergetemplate.
2863 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2864 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2868 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2871 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2872 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2873 dh_install, which ...
2874 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2875 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2876 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2877 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2878 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2879 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2880 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2881 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2882 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2883 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2884 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2885 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2886 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2887 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2888 other minor changes.
2889 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2890 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2891 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2892 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2893 course there's -X ..)
2894 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2895 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2896 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2898 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2899 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2900 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2901 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2902 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2907 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2913 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2916 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2920 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2926 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2932 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2938 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2944 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2947 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2948 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2949 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2950 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2952 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2953 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2957 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2963 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2966 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2970 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2973 upset. Closes: #131322
2975 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2977 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2980 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2981 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2982 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2983 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2984 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2985 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2986 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2987 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2988 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2989 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2990 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2991 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2992 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2993 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2994 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2996 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3000 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3003 - Better indenting of generated code.
3004 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3008 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3012 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3013 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3014 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3015 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3016 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3017 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3018 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3022 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3025 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3029 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3032 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3033 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3034 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3035 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3036 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3037 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3038 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3039 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3040 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3041 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3042 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3043 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3044 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3045 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3046 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3051 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3057 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3060 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3061 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3065 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3068 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3069 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3073 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3079 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3082 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3083 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3084 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3085 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3086 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3091 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3097 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3100 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3104 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3107 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3112 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3118 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3121 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3125 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3131 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3135 Also some indentation fixes.
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3139 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3142 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3143 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3144 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3145 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3146 Closes: #106514, #85520
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3150 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3156 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3162 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3168 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3174 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3180 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3183 change it in debhelper v4..
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3187 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3193 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3196 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3200 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3203 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3207 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3213 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3216 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3217 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3218 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3219 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3220 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3221 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3222 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3223 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3224 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3225 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3226 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3227 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3231 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3234 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3238 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3245 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3248 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3249 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3250 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3251 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3252 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3253 program those options go to. So, for example,
3254 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3255 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3256 something complex. Closes: #89311
3257 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3261 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3264 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3265 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3266 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3270 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3273 through loop. Closes: #98598
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3277 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Missing semi-colon.
3280 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3281 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3285 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3288 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3289 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3290 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3294 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3297 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3298 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3302 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3305 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3309 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3312 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3313 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3317 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3320 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3321 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3322 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3326 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3329 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3330 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3331 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3335 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3338 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3342 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3348 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3354 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3360 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3366 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3369 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3373 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3376 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3377 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3378 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3379 followed. Closes: #85483
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3383 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3385 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3386 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3387 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3391 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3394 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3395 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3396 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3397 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3398 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3399 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3400 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3401 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3402 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3403 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3404 Closes: #88464, #77743
3405 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3406 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3407 us to deal with that gracefully.
3408 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3410 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3411 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3412 a while, Closes: #51225
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3416 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3422 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3425 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3429 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3433 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3438 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3441 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3442 don't make packlist files.
3443 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3444 debhelper coding standards.
3445 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3446 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3450 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3453 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3457 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3460 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3461 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3462 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3463 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3464 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3465 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3466 but is mildly deprecated.
3467 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3468 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3469 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3470 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3471 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3472 switching to statoverrides..
3473 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3474 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3475 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3476 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3477 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3478 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3480 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3481 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3482 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3483 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3484 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3485 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3486 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3487 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3488 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3490 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3491 variable names, pod man pages).
3492 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3493 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3494 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3495 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3496 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3497 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3498 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3502 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3508 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3515 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3518 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3522 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3524 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3525 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3526 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3530 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3532 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3533 they were previously ignored.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3537 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3539 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3540 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3544 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3546 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3547 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3548 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3552 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3554 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3558 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3560 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3561 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3565 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3567 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3568 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3569 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3570 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3571 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3572 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3573 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3574 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3575 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3576 it is an obsolete program.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3580 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3582 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3586 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3590 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3592 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3596 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3598 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3600 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3602 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3606 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3612 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * typo: Closes, #78567
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3618 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3624 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3630 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3633 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3634 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3635 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3636 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3637 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3641 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3644 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3649 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3652 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3653 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3654 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3655 backwards-compatability.
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3659 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3662 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3663 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3664 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3665 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3666 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3667 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3669 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3670 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3671 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3673 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3675 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3676 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3677 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3678 should now be raised to severity important..
3679 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3680 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3684 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3687 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3692 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3698 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3704 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3710 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3717 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3720 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3721 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3722 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3723 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3727 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3733 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3736 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3737 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3738 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3739 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3740 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3741 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3746 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3749 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3753 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3759 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3762 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3767 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3770 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3771 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3772 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3773 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3777 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3781 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3784 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3787 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3788 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3791 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3793 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3794 the TODO entry about it.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3798 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3805 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3808 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3809 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3813 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3816 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3817 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3818 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3819 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3823 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3829 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3836 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3839 (this appears to be logal).
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3843 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3846 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3847 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3848 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3849 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3853 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3859 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3862 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3863 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3864 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3865 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3869 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3875 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3878 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3882 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3889 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3892 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3893 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3894 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3899 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3906 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3912 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3915 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3916 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3917 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3918 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3919 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3920 notice until v2 is complete.
3921 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3922 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3923 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3924 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3925 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3926 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3928 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3929 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3930 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3931 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3935 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3941 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3948 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3951 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3955 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3962 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3965 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3966 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3967 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3968 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3973 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3976 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3977 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3978 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3983 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3986 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3987 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3991 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3994 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4001 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4005 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4012 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4015 depend on the build and install targets.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4019 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4022 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4026 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4033 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4039 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4045 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4048 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4049 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4050 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4051 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4052 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4053 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4055 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4056 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4057 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4058 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4059 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4060 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4061 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4065 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4071 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4077 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4080 right place. Closes: #55065
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4084 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4091 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4094 * Copyright date updates.
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4098 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4101 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4106 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4112 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4119 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4125 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4131 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4137 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4140 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4141 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4142 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4143 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4144 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4145 bits until all files have been registered.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4149 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * dh_installmanpages:
4152 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4153 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4154 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4155 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4156 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4157 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4158 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4159 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4160 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4161 otherwise change the result at all.
4163 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4164 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4165 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4166 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4167 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4172 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4178 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4181 act on files that don't exist.
4182 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4183 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4184 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4186 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4187 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4188 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4189 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4193 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4199 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4205 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4208 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4212 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4215 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4217 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4218 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4219 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4223 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4226 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4227 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4228 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4229 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4230 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4231 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4232 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4234 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4236 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4240 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4247 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4253 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4259 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4261 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4262 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4266 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4272 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4278 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4281 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4282 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4283 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4284 I made some changes, though:
4285 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4286 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4287 that is a clear violation of policy.
4288 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4289 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4290 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4291 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4292 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4293 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4294 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4295 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4296 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4298 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4302 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4308 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4311 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4315 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4318 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4319 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4324 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4330 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4340 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4341 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4342 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4343 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4344 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4345 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4346 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4350 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4356 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4360 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4361 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4365 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4371 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4374 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4378 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4381 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4382 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4386 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4388 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4397 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4401 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4404 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4405 for the dependancies to be generated.
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4409 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4412 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4416 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4419 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4420 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4421 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4426 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4429 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4430 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4434 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4440 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4446 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4449 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4453 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4459 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4462 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4463 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4464 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4465 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4466 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4467 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4468 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4469 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4470 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4471 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4472 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4473 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4477 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4480 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4481 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4483 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4484 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4485 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4486 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4487 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4488 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4490 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4491 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4495 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4498 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4502 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4509 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4512 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4517 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4520 for building debhelper.
4521 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4525 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4532 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4535 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4539 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4542 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4543 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4544 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4545 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4546 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4547 it's always available.
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4551 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4554 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4555 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4556 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4560 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4563 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4564 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4568 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4577 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4581 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4590 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4591 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4592 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4596 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4599 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4607 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4608 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4610 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4611 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4615 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4621 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4627 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4630 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4634 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4637 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4638 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4640 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4644 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4647 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4648 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4649 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4653 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4656 things if CDPATH is set.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4660 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4666 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4669 seems to make sense for the transition.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4673 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4676 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4681 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4684 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4685 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4689 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4692 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4696 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4699 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4700 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4701 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4702 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4706 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4708 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4712 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4715 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4716 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4717 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4718 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4719 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4720 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4721 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4722 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4723 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4724 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4729 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4732 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4733 * README: mention doc/v2
4734 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4735 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4739 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4741 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4742 be using this script RSN.
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4746 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4749 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4750 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4751 more than 1 init script.
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4755 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4758 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4762 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * Changed perl version detection.
4765 * Changed call to find.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4769 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4772 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4774 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4779 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * Really include dh_installpam.
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4785 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4788 * Wrote man page for same.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4792 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4795 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4796 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4801 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4803 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4808 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4811 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4812 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4813 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4814 x bit was being set!
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4818 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4821 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4822 well. (Closes: 38900)
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4826 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4829 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4830 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4834 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4840 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4847 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4853 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4855 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4856 help from Julian Gilbey.
4857 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4858 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4859 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4860 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4861 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4862 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4863 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4868 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4874 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4881 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4887 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4889 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4893 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4896 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4900 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4903 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4907 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4910 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4914 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4920 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4923 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4927 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4933 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4939 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4942 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4943 may be deleted. (#35845)
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4947 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * Various man page enhancements.
4950 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4955 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4958 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4959 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4963 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4966 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4967 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4968 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4970 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4971 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4976 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4982 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * Another very minor typo fix.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4988 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * Very minor typo fix.
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4994 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4997 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4998 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5002 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5008 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5011 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5012 variables properly (#34850).
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5016 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5022 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5025 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5026 (automatically generated by build process).
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5030 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5032 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5036 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5039 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5040 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5042 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5046 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5049 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5053 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * README: minor typo fix.
5057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5059 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5061 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5062 leave it at that. :-)
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5066 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5072 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5078 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5081 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5082 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5083 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5087 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5090 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5094 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5097 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5101 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5104 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5105 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5106 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5107 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5111 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5114 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5115 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5116 Craig Small for spotting this.
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5120 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5123 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5124 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5128 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5134 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5137 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5141 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5143 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5144 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5145 working on the last version of debhelper.
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5149 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5152 being made. (#23255)
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5156 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5162 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5165 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5169 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5172 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5173 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5174 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5175 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5179 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5181 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5182 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5183 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5184 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5185 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5187 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5188 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5190 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5195 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5201 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5207 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5210 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5211 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5212 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5213 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5214 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5215 suidregister actually supports it.
5216 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5217 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5221 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5223 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5228 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5231 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5232 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5233 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5234 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5235 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5236 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5237 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5241 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5243 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5244 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5248 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5251 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5252 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5253 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5254 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5258 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5260 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5261 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5263 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5264 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5265 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5266 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5267 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5268 effect, either. (#30118)
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5272 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5274 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5278 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5281 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5282 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5286 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5292 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5295 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5296 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5297 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5298 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5302 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5305 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5306 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5310 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5316 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5319 packages, painlessly.
5321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5323 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5325 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5329 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5335 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5341 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * The perl conversion is complete.
5345 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5347 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5348 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5349 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5354 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5356 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5357 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5358 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5359 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5363 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5366 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5368 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5370 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5371 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5375 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5378 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5379 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5383 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5385 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5389 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5392 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5393 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5394 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5395 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5396 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5400 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5403 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5404 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5405 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5406 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5410 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5413 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5417 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5420 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5421 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5422 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5423 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5424 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5425 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5426 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5427 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5431 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5437 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5440 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5441 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5442 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5447 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5450 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5454 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5457 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5461 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5463 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5464 sections of shared libraries.
5465 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5466 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5467 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5468 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5469 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5470 things you don't want them to.
5471 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5472 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5476 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5479 shared libraries. (#26414)
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5483 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5485 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5486 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5487 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5488 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5492 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5496 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5498 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5499 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5500 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5501 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5502 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5506 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5509 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5513 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5516 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5517 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5522 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5525 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5529 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5532 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5533 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5534 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5535 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5536 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5538 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5539 remove debian/files properly.
5540 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5541 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5542 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5543 * Removed bogus menu file.
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5547 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5550 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5554 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5557 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5558 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5559 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5560 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5561 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5562 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5566 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5569 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5570 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5571 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5572 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5576 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5583 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5586 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5587 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5589 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5590 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5591 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5592 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5593 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5594 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5598 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5601 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5602 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5603 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5604 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5605 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5606 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5607 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5608 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5609 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5610 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5611 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5612 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5613 passed any switches.
5614 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5618 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5621 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5622 at all for a long while.
5623 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5624 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5625 large chunks in the process.
5626 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5627 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5628 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5633 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5636 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5638 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5643 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5646 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5647 that don't always have the same files in them.
5648 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5649 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5650 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5654 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5658 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5659 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5660 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5661 updating 27 man pages.
5662 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5663 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5664 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5665 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5666 programs act on. (#25247)
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5670 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5674 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5675 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5676 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5677 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5678 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5679 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5684 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5691 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5698 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5701 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5705 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5711 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5714 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5715 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5716 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5717 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5718 package by accident.
5719 * Is version 1.0 next?
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5723 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5726 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5727 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5731 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5734 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5735 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5736 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5737 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5738 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5740 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5745 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5748 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5749 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5753 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5755 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5756 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5760 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5763 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5764 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5769 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5775 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5778 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5779 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5784 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5790 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5793 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5794 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5795 past week. Thanks, guys!
5797 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5798 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5799 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5800 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5801 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5802 would do in the same situation.
5803 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5804 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5806 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5808 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5809 permissions changed.
5810 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5811 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5812 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5813 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5814 files are treated identically.
5815 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5816 * Minor man page fixes.
5817 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5818 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5819 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5823 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5826 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5827 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5828 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5829 use -X multiple times, too.
5830 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5831 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5835 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5838 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5839 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5843 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5846 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5850 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5853 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5854 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5855 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5856 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5857 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5858 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5859 shape if you're starting a new package.
5861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5863 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5865 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5866 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5870 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5873 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5874 because of missing symlinks.
5876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5878 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5880 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5884 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5887 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5888 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5889 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5890 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5891 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5893 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5894 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5898 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5900 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5901 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5902 to be changed after the fact :-)
5903 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5907 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5909 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5910 no version string after the -V.
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5914 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5916 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5917 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5922 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5924 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5925 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5929 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5931 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5932 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5933 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5934 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5935 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5936 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5937 I always welcome corrections!
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5941 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5947 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5950 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5951 * Documented this new switch.
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5955 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5958 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5959 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5960 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5961 no packages use the old behavior.
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5965 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5968 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5969 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5973 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5976 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5980 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5982 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5986 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5989 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5993 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5996 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5997 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5998 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6002 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6008 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6010 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6011 into the source package by accident.
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6015 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6018 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6019 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6020 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6021 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6022 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6023 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6028 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6032 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6033 inspired to implement some of it.
6034 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6038 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6040 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6041 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6045 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6048 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6049 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6053 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6056 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6057 have done.) (#17598)
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6061 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6067 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6073 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6076 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6080 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6083 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6084 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6088 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6091 argument processor in perl.
6092 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6093 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6094 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6095 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6099 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6102 type directories. (#16933)
6103 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6104 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6105 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6106 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6107 are supported. (#16935)
6108 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6113 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6116 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6120 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6122 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6124 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6125 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6126 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6127 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6128 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6129 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6133 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6135 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6136 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6137 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6139 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6140 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6141 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6142 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6143 a given package, or -i or -a.
6144 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6145 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6146 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6147 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6148 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6149 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6150 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6151 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6152 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6154 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6155 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6156 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6160 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6162 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6163 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6164 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6169 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6171 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6172 does not have a section.
6174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6176 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6178 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6179 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6180 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6181 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6185 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6187 * Fixed typo #16215.
6189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6191 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6193 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6194 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6195 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6196 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6197 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6198 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6203 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6206 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6207 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6208 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6213 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6215 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6219 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6221 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6225 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6228 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6229 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6230 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6231 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6232 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6233 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6237 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6243 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6245 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6246 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6250 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6252 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6253 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6254 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6255 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6259 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6261 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6262 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6266 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6268 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6272 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6274 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6275 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6279 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6282 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6286 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6292 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6294 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6295 postinst, postrm, etc.
6297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6299 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6301 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6305 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6307 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6308 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6309 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6310 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6311 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6312 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6316 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6318 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6319 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6320 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6324 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6327 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6331 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6334 installing package files into.
6335 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6340 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6342 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6344 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6348 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6354 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6356 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6357 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6361 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6364 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6365 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6366 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6367 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6371 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6373 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6374 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6375 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6376 multiple binary packages.
6377 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6378 should rebuild them with this version.
6379 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6383 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6385 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6386 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6390 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6392 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6393 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6397 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6399 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6400 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6401 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6402 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6403 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6404 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6405 debian/README.debian.
6406 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6407 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6408 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6409 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6410 in a few situations.)
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6414 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6416 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6420 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6422 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6426 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6428 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6429 * Fixed several man pages.
6431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6433 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6435 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6436 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6437 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6441 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6443 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6444 is ready for general use.
6445 * Added man pages for all commands.
6446 * Multiple binary package support.
6447 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6448 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6449 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6451 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6452 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6453 auto-installed as parameters.
6454 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6456 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6459 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6460 the package build directory it is to act on.
6461 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6462 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6463 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6467 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6469 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6470 ready to replace debstd.
6472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400