1 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
8 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
14 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
16 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
17 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
19 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
20 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
21 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
22 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
23 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
25 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
27 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
28 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
29 rules (see bug #509756).
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
33 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
39 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
40 * Typo. Closes: #493062
41 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
42 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
46 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
49 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
50 empty files. Closes: #490937
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
54 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
60 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
67 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
70 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
71 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
72 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
73 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
78 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
80 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
81 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
82 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
83 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
87 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
90 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
91 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
92 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
93 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
94 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
98 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
105 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
107 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
108 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
109 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
110 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
111 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
112 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
113 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
114 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
115 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
116 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
120 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
123 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
124 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
125 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
126 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
128 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
129 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
130 breaking backwards compatability.
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
134 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
137 message in perl 5.10.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
141 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
143 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
147 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Convert copyright file to new format.
150 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
154 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
157 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
161 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
164 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
165 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
166 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
167 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
168 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
169 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
170 logging by dh_listpackages.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
174 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
177 run and there are no packages of that type.
178 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
179 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
180 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
181 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
183 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
184 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
188 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
190 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
191 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
192 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
196 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
199 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
200 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
202 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
203 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
204 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
205 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
206 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
207 planned but not yet implemented.)
208 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
209 if the Makefile has such a target.
210 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
211 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
212 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
213 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
214 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
215 but not yet implemented.)
216 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
217 recommended default, especially when using dh.
218 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
219 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
220 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
222 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
224 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
225 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
227 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
228 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
229 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
234 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
236 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
237 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
238 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
242 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
244 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
245 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
246 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
250 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
256 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
262 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
265 just those installed by the program.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
269 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
272 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
273 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
277 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
280 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
281 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
282 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
283 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
287 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
289 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
290 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
291 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
295 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
298 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
299 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
303 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
306 with policy. Closes: #461392
307 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
308 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
309 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
310 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
311 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
315 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
318 Closes: #460340, #460351
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
322 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
325 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
326 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
327 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
328 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
332 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
335 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
336 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
337 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
338 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
339 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
340 package build directory won't work.
341 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
342 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
343 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
344 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
345 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
346 mode. Closes: #459426
347 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
352 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
355 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
359 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
363 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
364 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
365 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
366 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
367 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
368 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
372 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
375 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
376 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
377 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
378 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
382 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
385 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
386 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
387 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
388 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
389 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
393 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
396 debian/package.triggers files.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
400 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
403 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
407 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
410 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
411 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
412 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
413 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
418 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
421 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
425 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
428 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
429 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
431 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
436 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
440 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
441 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
442 * Typo. Closes: #441272
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
446 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
453 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
460 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
463 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
465 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
466 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
467 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
469 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
470 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
471 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
475 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
478 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
479 * Update urls to web page.
480 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
482 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
483 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
487 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
490 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
491 - typo in alternatives call
492 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
494 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
495 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
499 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
502 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
507 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
513 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
519 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
522 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
524 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
525 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
526 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
527 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
528 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
529 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
530 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
531 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
532 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
533 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
534 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
538 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
541 package install. Closes: #415717
542 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
543 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
544 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
545 script and then remove the python files.
546 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
547 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
548 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
549 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
550 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
551 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
552 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
553 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
554 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
555 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
556 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
557 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
558 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
562 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Correct typo in french translation
568 * Typo. Closes: #400571
569 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
571 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
573 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
574 Closes: #406921, #381940
575 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
577 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
578 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
579 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
580 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
581 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
582 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
583 specified). Closes: #381851
584 * Misc minor changes.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
588 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
595 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
596 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
600 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
606 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
607 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
610 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
611 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
613 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
614 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
615 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
616 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
620 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
623 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
626 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
630 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
636 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
642 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
643 a difficult situation.
644 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
645 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
646 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
647 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
648 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
649 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
650 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
651 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
652 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
653 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
657 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Non-maintainer upload.
660 * Update of dh_python
661 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
662 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
664 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
665 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
666 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
667 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
668 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
670 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
672 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Non-maintainer upload.
675 * Update of dh_python
676 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
677 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
678 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
679 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
680 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
681 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
682 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
683 specific python version. Closes: #373853
684 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
685 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
687 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
688 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
689 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
690 the not too-distant future).
691 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
692 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
693 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
694 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
695 thus made the build fail.
697 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
699 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Non-maintainer upload.
702 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
704 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
706 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
708 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
709 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
710 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
711 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
712 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
713 package. Closes: #301424
714 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
715 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
716 fonts). Closes: #372686
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
720 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
726 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
727 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
728 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
729 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
730 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
731 above, but already depends on that.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
735 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
738 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
739 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
740 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
741 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
742 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
746 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
752 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
758 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
759 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
763 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
766 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
770 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
774 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
775 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
776 new version (0.24.1).
777 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
778 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
781 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
782 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
783 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
784 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
785 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
786 new directory on their own.
787 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
788 * Fix broken directory removal code.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
792 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
795 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
796 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
797 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
798 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
802 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
805 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
806 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
807 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
808 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
809 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
813 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
819 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Typo. Closes: #358904
823 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
824 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
828 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
829 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
833 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
835 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
836 || exit 0 instead of the intended
838 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
839 ignored. Closes: #337664
841 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
846 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
852 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
857 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
858 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
859 the dh_installdebconf manpage
860 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
861 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
862 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
863 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
867 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
869 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
870 version. Closes: #350607
871 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
872 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
873 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
874 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
878 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
881 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
882 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
883 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
887 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
894 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Minor bug fix from last release.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
900 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
903 language guessing. Closes: #193221
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
907 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
910 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
911 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
912 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
913 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
914 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
915 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
919 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
922 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
923 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
928 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
931 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
935 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
938 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
942 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
945 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
946 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
947 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
948 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
949 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
950 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
954 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
957 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
958 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
959 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
960 link. Closes: #346405
961 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
964 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
965 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
966 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
967 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
968 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
969 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
973 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
980 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
982 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
986 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
989 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
993 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
996 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1001 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1005 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1006 installed. Closes: #342033
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1010 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1013 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1014 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1015 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1020 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1026 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1032 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1036 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1037 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1038 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1042 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1045 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1050 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1057 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1063 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1066 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1067 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1068 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1069 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1070 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1071 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1072 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1074 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1078 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1081 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1082 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1086 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1089 in standard man dirs.
1090 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1094 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1100 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1103 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1108 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1115 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1122 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1125 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1126 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1130 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1133 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1134 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1135 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1137 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1139 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1145 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1151 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1154 mode. Closes: #324161
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1158 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1161 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1162 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1163 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1164 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1169 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1172 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1173 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1174 is necesary for sanity.
1175 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1176 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1181 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1183 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1184 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1188 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1191 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1195 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1201 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1204 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1205 released, so use at your own risk.
1206 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1207 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1209 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1210 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1211 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1212 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1213 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1214 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1215 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1216 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1217 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1218 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1219 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1220 including twice per config file line now..
1221 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1222 and simplfy the rules file.
1223 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1224 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1225 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1227 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1228 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1232 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1235 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1239 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1242 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1246 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1249 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1253 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1256 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1257 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1258 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1259 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1260 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1261 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1265 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1268 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1269 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1270 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1275 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1278 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1279 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1284 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1287 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1288 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1289 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1294 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1297 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1298 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1299 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1303 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1309 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1316 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1319 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1320 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1321 unknown. Closes: #282924
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1325 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1332 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Spanish man page updates.
1335 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1340 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1346 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1349 * dh_desktop: reindent
1350 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1351 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1355 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1361 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1363 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1367 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1369 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1373 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1376 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1377 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1381 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1387 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1393 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1400 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1403 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1407 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1410 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1411 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1412 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1413 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1414 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1415 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1417 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1418 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1419 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1420 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1421 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1422 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1423 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1424 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1425 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1426 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1427 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1428 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1429 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1430 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1431 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1432 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1436 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1443 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1446 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1450 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1453 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1457 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1460 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1464 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1467 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1471 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1477 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1483 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1489 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1492 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1493 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1494 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1498 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1501 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1505 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1508 but occasionally right and necessary.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1512 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1515 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1516 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1517 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1518 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1519 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1523 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1526 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1528 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1529 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1530 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1531 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1532 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1533 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1534 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1535 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1536 postinst scripts for udebs.
1537 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1541 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1544 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1546 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1547 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1551 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1557 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1564 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1571 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1574 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1578 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1581 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1585 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1588 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1591 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1592 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1596 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1602 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1605 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1609 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1612 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1613 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1614 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1616 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1618 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1619 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1620 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1624 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1627 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1632 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1635 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1636 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1637 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1642 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1648 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1654 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1657 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1658 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1659 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1660 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1661 associated -dbg packages.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1665 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1668 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1672 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1675 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1679 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1682 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1686 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1689 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1694 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1697 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1701 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1704 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1709 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1712 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1716 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1720 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1721 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1722 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1723 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1724 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1725 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1726 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1727 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1728 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1729 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1733 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1736 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1741 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1744 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1745 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1749 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1752 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1753 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1758 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1761 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1765 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1768 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1772 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1775 out section number. Closes: #204731
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1779 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1786 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1792 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1798 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1801 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1802 removal. Closes: #204286
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1806 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1809 renaming. Closes: #203548
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1813 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1816 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1817 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1821 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1827 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1833 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1839 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1842 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1843 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1844 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1848 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1851 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1852 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1856 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1862 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1869 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1872 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1877 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1880 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1884 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1887 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1889 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1890 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1894 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1897 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1902 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1905 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1909 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1915 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1917 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1921 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1924 it break hard links (see #188663).
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1928 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1931 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1935 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1941 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1945 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1946 debconf-mergetemplates
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1950 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1953 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1957 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1960 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1964 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1967 * Update debhelper(1).
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1971 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1974 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1975 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1976 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1977 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1978 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1982 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1985 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1986 the shell. Closes: #178524
1987 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1991 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1994 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1998 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2001 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2005 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2008 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2009 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2010 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2011 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2016 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2019 files from installation.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2023 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2026 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2027 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2031 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2034 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2038 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2041 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2045 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2051 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2057 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2061 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2062 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2064 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2068 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2071 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2072 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2073 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2074 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2078 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2081 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2085 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2088 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2089 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2093 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2097 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2102 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2108 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2112 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2113 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2114 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2119 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2122 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2123 practice. Closes: #163303
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2127 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2133 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2140 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2143 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2145 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2146 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2147 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2148 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2149 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2156 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2161 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2174 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2177 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2182 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2188 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2194 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2200 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2207 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2210 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2211 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2212 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2213 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2218 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2224 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2231 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2234 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2235 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2242 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2243 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2244 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2245 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2246 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2250 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2253 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2255 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2263 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2267 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2270 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2271 right thing. Closes: #150644
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Stupid, evil typo.
2278 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2282 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2289 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2292 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2293 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2298 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2304 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2307 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2311 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2314 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2315 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2320 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2323 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2327 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2333 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2336 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2337 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2347 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * Removing perl warning message.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2353 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2356 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2357 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2358 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2359 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2360 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2361 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2362 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2363 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2367 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2373 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2380 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2383 debconf-mergetemplate.
2384 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2385 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2389 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2392 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2393 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2394 dh_install, which ...
2395 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2396 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2397 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2398 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2399 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2400 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2401 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2402 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2403 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2404 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2405 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2406 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2407 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2408 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2409 other minor changes.
2410 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2411 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2412 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2413 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2414 course there's -X ..)
2415 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2416 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2417 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2419 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2420 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2421 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2422 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2423 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2428 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2434 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2437 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2441 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2447 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2453 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2459 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2465 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2468 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2469 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2470 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2471 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2473 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2474 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2478 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2484 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2487 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2491 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2494 upset. Closes: #131322
2496 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2498 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2501 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2502 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2503 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2504 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2505 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2506 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2507 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2508 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2509 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2510 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2511 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2512 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2513 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2514 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2515 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2517 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2521 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2524 - Better indenting of generated code.
2525 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2529 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2533 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2534 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2535 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2536 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2537 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2538 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2539 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2543 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2546 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2550 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2553 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2554 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2555 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2556 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2557 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2558 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2559 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2560 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2561 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2562 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2563 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2564 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2565 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2566 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2567 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2572 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2578 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2581 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2582 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2586 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2589 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2590 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2594 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2600 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2603 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2604 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2605 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2606 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2607 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2612 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2618 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2621 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2625 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2628 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2633 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2639 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2642 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2646 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2652 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2656 Also some indentation fixes.
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2660 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2663 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2664 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2665 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2666 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2667 Closes: #106514, #85520
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2671 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2677 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2683 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2689 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2695 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2701 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2704 change it in debhelper v4..
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2708 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2714 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2717 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2721 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2724 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2728 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2734 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2737 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2738 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2739 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2740 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2741 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2742 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2743 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2744 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2745 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2746 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2747 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2748 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2752 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2755 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2759 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2766 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2769 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2770 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2771 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2772 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2773 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2774 program those options go to. So, for example,
2775 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2776 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2777 something complex. Closes: #89311
2778 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2782 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2785 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2786 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2787 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2791 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2794 through loop. Closes: #98598
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2798 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Missing semi-colon.
2801 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2802 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2806 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2809 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2810 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2811 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2815 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2818 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2819 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2823 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2826 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2830 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2833 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2834 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2838 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2841 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2842 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2843 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2847 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2850 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2851 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2852 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2856 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2859 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2863 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2869 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2875 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2881 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2887 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2890 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2894 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2897 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2898 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2899 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2900 followed. Closes: #85483
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2904 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2906 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2907 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2908 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2912 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2915 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2916 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2917 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2918 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2919 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2920 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2921 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2922 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2923 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2924 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2925 Closes: #88464, #77743
2926 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2927 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2928 us to deal with that gracefully.
2929 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2931 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2932 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2933 a while, Closes: #51225
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2937 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2943 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2946 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2950 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2954 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2959 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2962 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2963 don't make packlist files.
2964 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2965 debhelper coding standards.
2966 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2967 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2971 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2974 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2978 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2981 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2982 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2983 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2984 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2985 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2986 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2987 but is mildly deprecated.
2988 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2989 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2990 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2991 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2992 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2993 switching to statoverrides..
2994 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2995 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2996 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2997 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2998 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2999 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3001 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3002 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3003 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3004 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3005 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3006 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3007 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3008 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3009 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3011 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3012 variable names, pod man pages).
3013 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3014 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3015 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3016 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3017 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3018 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3019 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3023 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3029 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3036 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3039 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3043 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3045 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3046 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3047 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3051 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3053 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3054 they were previously ignored.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3058 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3060 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3061 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3065 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3067 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3068 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3069 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3073 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3075 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3079 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3081 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3082 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3086 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3088 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3089 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3090 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3091 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3092 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3093 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3094 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3095 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3096 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3097 it is an obsolete program.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3101 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3103 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3107 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3111 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3113 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3117 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3119 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3121 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3123 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3127 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3133 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * typo: Closes, #78567
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3139 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3145 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3151 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3154 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3155 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3156 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3157 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3158 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3162 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3165 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3170 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3173 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3174 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3175 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3176 backwards-compatability.
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3180 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3183 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3184 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3185 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3186 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3187 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3188 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3190 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3191 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3192 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3194 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3196 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3197 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3198 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3199 should now be raised to severity important..
3200 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3201 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3205 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3208 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3213 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3219 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3225 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3231 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3238 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3241 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3242 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3243 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3244 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3248 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3254 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3257 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3258 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3259 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3260 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3261 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3262 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3267 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3270 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3274 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3280 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3283 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3288 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3291 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3292 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3293 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3294 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3298 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3302 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3305 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3308 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3309 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3312 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3314 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3315 the TODO entry about it.
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3319 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3326 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3329 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3330 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3334 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3337 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3338 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3339 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3340 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3344 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3350 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3357 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3360 (this appears to be logal).
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3364 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3367 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3368 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3369 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3370 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3374 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3380 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3383 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3384 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3385 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3386 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3390 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3396 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3399 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3403 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3410 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3413 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3414 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3415 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3420 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3427 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3433 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3436 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3437 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3438 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3439 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3440 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3441 notice until v2 is complete.
3442 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3443 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3444 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3445 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3446 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3447 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3449 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3450 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3451 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3452 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3456 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3462 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3469 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3472 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3476 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3483 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3486 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3487 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3488 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3489 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3494 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3497 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3498 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3499 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3504 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3507 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3508 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3512 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3515 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3519 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3522 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3526 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3533 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3536 depend on the build and install targets.
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3540 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3543 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3547 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3554 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3560 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3566 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3569 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3570 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3571 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3572 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3573 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3574 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3576 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3577 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3578 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3579 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3580 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3581 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3582 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3586 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3592 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3598 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3601 right place. Closes: #55065
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3605 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3612 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3615 * Copyright date updates.
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3619 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3622 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3627 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3633 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3640 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3646 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3652 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3658 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3661 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3662 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3663 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3664 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3665 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3666 bits until all files have been registered.
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3670 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * dh_installmanpages:
3673 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3674 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3675 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3676 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3677 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3678 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3679 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3680 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3681 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3682 otherwise change the result at all.
3684 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3685 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3686 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3687 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3688 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3693 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3699 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3702 act on files that don't exist.
3703 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3704 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3705 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3707 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3708 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3709 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3710 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3714 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3720 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3726 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3729 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3733 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3736 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3738 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3739 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3740 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3744 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3747 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3748 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3749 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3750 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3751 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3752 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3753 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3755 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3757 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3761 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3768 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3774 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3780 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3783 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3787 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3793 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3799 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3802 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3803 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3804 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3805 I made some changes, though:
3806 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3807 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3808 that is a clear violation of policy.
3809 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3810 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3811 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3812 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3813 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3814 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3815 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3816 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3817 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3819 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3823 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3829 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3832 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3836 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3839 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3840 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3845 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3851 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3858 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3861 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3862 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3863 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3864 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3865 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3866 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3867 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3871 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3877 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3881 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3882 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3886 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3892 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3895 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3899 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3902 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3903 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3907 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3909 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3914 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3918 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3922 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3925 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3926 for the dependancies to be generated.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3930 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3933 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3937 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3940 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3941 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3942 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3947 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3950 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3951 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3955 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3961 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3967 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3970 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3974 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3980 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3983 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3984 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3985 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3986 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3987 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3988 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3989 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3990 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3991 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3992 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3993 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3994 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4001 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4002 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4004 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4005 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4006 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4007 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4008 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4009 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4011 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4012 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4016 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4019 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4023 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4030 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4033 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4041 for building debhelper.
4042 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4046 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4053 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4056 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4063 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4064 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4065 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4066 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4067 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4068 it's always available.
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4072 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4075 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4076 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4077 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4081 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4084 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4085 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4089 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4095 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4098 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4102 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4108 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4111 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4112 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4113 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4117 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4120 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4125 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4128 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4129 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4131 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4132 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4142 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4148 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4151 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4155 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4158 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4159 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4161 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4165 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4168 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4169 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4170 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4174 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4177 things if CDPATH is set.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4181 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4190 seems to make sense for the transition.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4194 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4197 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4202 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4205 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4206 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4210 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4213 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4217 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4220 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4221 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4222 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4223 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4227 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4233 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4236 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4237 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4238 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4239 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4240 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4241 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4242 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4243 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4244 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4245 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4250 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4253 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4254 * README: mention doc/v2
4255 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4256 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4260 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4262 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4263 be using this script RSN.
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4267 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4270 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4271 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4272 more than 1 init script.
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4276 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4279 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4283 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * Changed perl version detection.
4286 * Changed call to find.
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4290 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4293 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4295 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4300 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * Really include dh_installpam.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4306 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4309 * Wrote man page for same.
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4313 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4316 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4317 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4322 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4329 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4332 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4333 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4334 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4335 x bit was being set!
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4339 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4342 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4343 well. (Closes: 38900)
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4347 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4350 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4351 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4355 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4361 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4368 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4374 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4377 help from Julian Gilbey.
4378 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4379 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4380 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4381 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4382 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4383 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4384 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4389 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4395 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4402 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4408 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4414 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4417 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4421 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4424 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4428 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4431 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4435 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4441 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4444 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4448 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4454 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4460 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4463 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4464 may be deleted. (#35845)
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4468 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Various man page enhancements.
4471 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4476 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4479 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4480 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4484 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4487 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4488 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4489 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4491 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4492 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4497 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4503 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * Another very minor typo fix.
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4509 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * Very minor typo fix.
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4515 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4518 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4519 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4523 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4529 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4532 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4533 variables properly (#34850).
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4537 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4543 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4546 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4547 (automatically generated by build process).
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4551 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4553 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4557 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4560 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4561 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4563 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4567 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4570 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4574 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * README: minor typo fix.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4580 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4583 leave it at that. :-)
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4587 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4593 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4599 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4602 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4603 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4604 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4608 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4611 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4615 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4618 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4622 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4625 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4626 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4627 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4628 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4632 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4635 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4636 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4637 Craig Small for spotting this.
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4641 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4644 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4645 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4649 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4655 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4658 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4662 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4664 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4665 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4666 working on the last version of debhelper.
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4670 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4673 being made. (#23255)
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4677 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4683 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4686 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4690 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4693 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4694 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4695 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4696 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4700 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4703 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4704 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4705 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4706 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4708 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4709 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4711 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4716 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4722 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4728 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4731 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4732 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4733 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4734 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4735 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4736 suidregister actually supports it.
4737 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4738 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4742 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4749 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4752 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4753 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4754 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4755 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4756 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4757 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4758 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4762 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4764 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4765 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4769 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4772 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4773 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4774 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4775 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4779 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4782 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4784 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4785 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4786 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4787 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4788 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4789 effect, either. (#30118)
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4793 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4799 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4802 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4803 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4807 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4813 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4816 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4817 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4818 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4819 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4823 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4826 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4827 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4831 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4837 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4840 packages, painlessly.
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4844 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4850 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4856 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4862 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * The perl conversion is complete.
4866 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4868 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4869 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4870 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4875 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4878 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4879 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4880 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4884 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4887 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4889 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4891 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4892 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4896 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4899 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4900 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4904 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4910 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4913 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4914 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4915 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4916 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4917 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4921 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4924 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4925 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4926 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4927 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4931 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4934 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4938 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4941 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4942 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4943 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4944 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4945 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4946 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4947 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4948 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4952 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4958 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4961 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4962 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4963 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4968 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4971 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4975 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4978 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4982 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4985 sections of shared libraries.
4986 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4987 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4988 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4989 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4990 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4991 things you don't want them to.
4992 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4993 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4997 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5000 shared libraries. (#26414)
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5004 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5006 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5007 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5008 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5009 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5013 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5017 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5019 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5020 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5021 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5022 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5023 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5027 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5030 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5034 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5037 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5038 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5043 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5046 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5050 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5053 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5054 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5055 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5056 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5057 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5059 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5060 remove debian/files properly.
5061 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5062 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5063 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5064 * Removed bogus menu file.
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5068 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5071 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5075 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5077 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5078 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5079 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5080 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5081 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5082 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5083 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5087 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5090 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5091 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5092 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5093 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5097 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5099 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5104 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5107 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5108 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5110 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5111 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5112 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5113 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5114 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5115 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5119 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5122 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5123 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5124 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5125 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5126 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5127 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5128 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5129 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5130 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5131 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5132 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5133 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5134 passed any switches.
5135 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5139 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5142 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5143 at all for a long while.
5144 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5145 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5146 large chunks in the process.
5147 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5148 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5149 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5154 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5157 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5159 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5164 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5167 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5168 that don't always have the same files in them.
5169 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5170 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5171 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5175 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5179 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5180 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5181 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5182 updating 27 man pages.
5183 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5184 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5185 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5186 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5187 programs act on. (#25247)
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5191 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5195 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5196 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5197 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5198 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5199 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5200 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5205 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5212 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5219 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5222 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5226 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5232 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5235 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5236 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5237 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5238 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5239 package by accident.
5240 * Is version 1.0 next?
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5244 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5247 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5248 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5252 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5254 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5255 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5256 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5257 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5258 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5259 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5261 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5266 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5269 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5270 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5274 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5277 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5281 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5284 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5285 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5290 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5296 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5299 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5300 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5305 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5311 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5314 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5315 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5316 past week. Thanks, guys!
5318 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5319 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5320 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5321 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5322 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5323 would do in the same situation.
5324 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5325 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5327 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5329 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5330 permissions changed.
5331 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5332 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5333 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5334 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5335 files are treated identically.
5336 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5337 * Minor man page fixes.
5338 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5339 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5340 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5344 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5346 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5347 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5348 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5349 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5350 use -X multiple times, too.
5351 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5352 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5356 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5359 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5360 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5364 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5367 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5371 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5374 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5375 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5376 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5377 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5378 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5379 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5380 shape if you're starting a new package.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5384 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5387 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5391 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5394 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5395 because of missing symlinks.
5397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5399 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5401 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5405 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5408 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5409 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5410 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5411 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5412 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5414 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5415 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5419 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5421 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5422 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5423 to be changed after the fact :-)
5424 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5428 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5430 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5431 no version string after the -V.
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5435 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5437 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5438 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5443 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5446 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5450 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5453 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5454 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5455 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5456 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5457 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5458 I always welcome corrections!
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5462 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5468 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5471 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5472 * Documented this new switch.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5476 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5479 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5480 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5481 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5482 no packages use the old behavior.
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5486 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5489 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5490 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5494 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5497 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5501 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5507 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5510 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5514 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5517 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5518 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5519 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5523 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5529 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5532 into the source package by accident.
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5536 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5539 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5540 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5541 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5542 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5543 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5544 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5549 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5553 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5554 inspired to implement some of it.
5555 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5559 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5562 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5566 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5569 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5570 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5574 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5577 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5578 have done.) (#17598)
5580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5582 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5584 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5588 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5594 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5597 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5601 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5604 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5605 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5609 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5612 argument processor in perl.
5613 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5614 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5615 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5616 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5620 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5622 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5623 type directories. (#16933)
5624 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5625 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5626 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5627 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5628 are supported. (#16935)
5629 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5634 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5637 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5641 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5645 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5646 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5647 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5648 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5649 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5650 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5654 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5657 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5658 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5660 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5661 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5662 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5663 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5664 a given package, or -i or -a.
5665 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5666 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5667 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5668 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5669 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5670 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5671 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5672 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5673 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5675 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5676 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5677 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5681 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5684 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5685 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5690 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5692 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5693 does not have a section.
5695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5697 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5699 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5700 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5701 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5702 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5706 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * Fixed typo #16215.
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5712 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5715 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5716 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5717 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5718 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5719 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5724 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5727 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5728 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5729 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5734 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5740 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5746 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5749 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5750 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5751 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5752 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5753 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5754 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5758 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5764 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5767 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5771 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5774 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5775 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5776 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5780 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5783 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5787 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5789 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5793 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5795 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5796 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5800 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5802 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5803 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5807 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5809 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5813 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5816 postinst, postrm, etc.
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5820 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5826 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5829 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5830 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5831 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5832 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5833 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5837 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5840 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5841 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5845 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5847 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5848 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5852 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5855 installing package files into.
5856 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5861 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5865 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5869 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5875 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5878 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5882 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5885 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5886 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5887 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5888 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5892 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5894 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5895 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5896 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5897 multiple binary packages.
5898 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5899 should rebuild them with this version.
5900 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5904 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5907 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5911 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5914 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5918 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5921 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5922 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5923 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5924 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5925 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5926 debian/README.debian.
5927 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5928 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5929 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5930 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5931 in a few situations.)
5933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5935 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5937 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5941 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5947 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5950 * Fixed several man pages.
5952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5954 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5956 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5957 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5958 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5962 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5965 is ready for general use.
5966 * Added man pages for all commands.
5967 * Multiple binary package support.
5968 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5969 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5970 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5972 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5973 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5974 auto-installed as parameters.
5975 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5977 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5980 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5981 the package build directory it is to act on.
5982 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5983 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5984 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5988 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5990 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5991 ready to replace debstd.
5993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400