1 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
4 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
5 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
9 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
12 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
13 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
14 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
15 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
19 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
22 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
23 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
27 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
30 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
31 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
35 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
38 with policy. Closes: #461392
39 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
40 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
41 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
42 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
43 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
47 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
50 Closes: #460340, #460351
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
54 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
57 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
58 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
59 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
60 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
64 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
67 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
68 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
69 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
70 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
71 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
72 package build directory won't work.
73 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
74 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
75 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
76 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
77 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
79 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
84 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
87 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
91 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
95 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
96 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
97 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
98 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
99 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
100 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
104 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
107 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
108 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
109 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
110 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
114 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
117 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
118 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
119 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
120 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
121 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
125 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
128 debian/package.triggers files.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
132 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
135 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
139 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
142 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
143 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
144 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
145 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
150 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
153 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
157 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
160 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
161 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
163 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
168 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
172 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
173 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
174 * Typo. Closes: #441272
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
178 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
185 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
192 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
195 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
197 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
198 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
199 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
201 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
202 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
203 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
207 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
210 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
211 * Update urls to web page.
212 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
214 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
215 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
219 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
222 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
223 - typo in alternatives call
224 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
226 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
227 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
231 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
234 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
239 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
245 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
251 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
254 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
256 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
257 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
258 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
259 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
260 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
261 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
262 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
263 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
264 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
265 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
266 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
270 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
273 package install. Closes: #415717
274 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
275 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
276 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
277 script and then remove the python files.
278 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
279 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
280 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
281 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
282 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
283 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
284 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
285 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
286 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
287 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
288 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
289 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
290 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
294 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Correct typo in french translation
300 * Typo. Closes: #400571
301 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
303 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
305 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
306 Closes: #406921, #381940
307 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
309 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
310 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
311 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
312 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
313 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
314 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
315 specified). Closes: #381851
316 * Misc minor changes.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
320 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
327 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
328 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
332 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
338 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
339 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
342 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
343 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
345 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
346 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
347 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
348 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
352 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
355 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
358 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
362 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
368 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
374 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
375 a difficult situation.
376 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
377 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
378 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
379 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
380 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
381 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
382 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
383 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
384 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
385 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
389 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Non-maintainer upload.
392 * Update of dh_python
393 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
394 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
396 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
397 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
398 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
399 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
400 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
402 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
404 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Non-maintainer upload.
407 * Update of dh_python
408 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
409 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
410 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
411 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
412 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
413 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
414 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
415 specific python version. Closes: #373853
416 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
417 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
419 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
420 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
421 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
422 the not too-distant future).
423 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
424 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
425 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
426 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
427 thus made the build fail.
429 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
431 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Non-maintainer upload.
434 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
436 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
438 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
441 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
442 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
443 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
444 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
445 package. Closes: #301424
446 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
447 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
448 fonts). Closes: #372686
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
452 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
458 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
459 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
460 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
461 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
462 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
463 above, but already depends on that.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
467 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
469 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
470 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
471 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
472 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
473 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
474 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
478 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
484 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
490 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
491 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
495 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
498 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
502 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
506 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
507 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
508 new version (0.24.1).
509 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
510 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
513 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
514 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
515 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
516 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
517 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
518 new directory on their own.
519 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
520 * Fix broken directory removal code.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
524 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
527 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
528 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
529 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
530 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
534 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
537 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
538 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
539 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
540 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
541 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
545 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
551 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Typo. Closes: #358904
555 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
556 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
560 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
561 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
565 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
567 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
568 || exit 0 instead of the intended
570 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
571 ignored. Closes: #337664
573 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
578 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
584 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
589 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
590 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
591 the dh_installdebconf manpage
592 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
593 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
594 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
595 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
599 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
602 version. Closes: #350607
603 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
604 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
605 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
606 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
610 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
613 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
614 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
615 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
619 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
626 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Minor bug fix from last release.
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
632 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
634 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
635 language guessing. Closes: #193221
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
639 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
642 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
643 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
644 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
645 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
646 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
647 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
651 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
654 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
655 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
660 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
662 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
663 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
667 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
670 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
674 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
677 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
678 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
679 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
680 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
681 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
682 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
686 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
689 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
690 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
691 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
692 link. Closes: #346405
693 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
696 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
697 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
698 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
699 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
700 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
701 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
705 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
712 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
714 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
718 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
721 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
725 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
728 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
733 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
737 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
738 installed. Closes: #342033
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
742 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
745 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
746 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
747 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
752 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
758 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
764 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
768 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
769 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
770 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
774 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
776 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
777 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
782 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
789 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
795 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
797 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
798 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
799 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
800 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
801 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
802 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
803 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
804 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
806 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
810 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
813 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
814 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
818 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
821 in standard man dirs.
822 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
826 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
832 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
834 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
835 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
840 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
847 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
854 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
856 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
857 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
858 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
862 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
864 * NMU with maintainer approval.
865 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
866 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
867 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
869 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
871 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
877 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
883 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
886 mode. Closes: #324161
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
890 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
893 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
894 behavior change. Closes: #249815
895 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
896 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
901 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
904 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
905 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
906 is necesary for sanity.
907 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
908 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
913 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
915 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
916 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
920 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
923 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
927 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
933 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
936 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
937 released, so use at your own risk.
938 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
939 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
941 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
942 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
943 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
944 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
945 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
946 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
947 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
948 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
949 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
950 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
951 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
952 including twice per config file line now..
953 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
954 and simplfy the rules file.
955 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
956 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
957 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
959 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
960 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
964 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
967 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
971 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
974 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
978 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
980 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
981 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
985 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
988 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
989 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
990 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
991 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
992 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
993 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
997 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1000 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1001 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1002 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1007 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1010 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1011 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1016 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1019 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1020 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1021 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1026 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1029 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1030 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1031 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1035 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1041 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1048 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1051 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1052 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1053 unknown. Closes: #282924
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1057 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1064 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Spanish man page updates.
1067 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1072 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1078 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1081 * dh_desktop: reindent
1082 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1083 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1087 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1093 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1095 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1099 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1101 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1105 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1108 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1109 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1113 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1119 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1125 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1132 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1135 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1139 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1142 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1143 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1144 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1145 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1146 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1147 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1149 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1150 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1151 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1152 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1153 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1154 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1155 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1156 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1157 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1158 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1159 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1160 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1161 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1162 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1163 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1164 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1168 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1175 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1178 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1182 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1185 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1189 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1192 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1196 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1199 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1203 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1209 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1215 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1221 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1224 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1225 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1226 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1230 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1233 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1237 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1240 but occasionally right and necessary.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1244 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1247 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1248 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1249 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1250 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1251 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1255 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1258 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1260 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1261 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1262 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1263 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1264 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1265 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1266 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1267 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1268 postinst scripts for udebs.
1269 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1273 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1276 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1278 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1279 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1283 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1289 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1296 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1303 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1306 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1310 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1313 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1317 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1320 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1323 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1324 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1328 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1334 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1337 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1341 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1344 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1345 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1346 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1348 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1350 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1351 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1352 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1356 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1359 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1364 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1367 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1368 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1369 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1374 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1380 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1386 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1389 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1390 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1391 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1392 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1393 associated -dbg packages.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1397 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1400 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1404 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1407 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1411 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1414 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1418 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1421 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1426 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1429 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1433 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1436 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1441 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1444 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1448 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1452 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1453 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1454 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1455 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1456 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1457 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1458 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1459 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1460 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1461 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1465 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1468 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1473 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1476 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1477 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1481 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1484 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1485 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1490 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1493 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1497 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1500 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1504 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1507 out section number. Closes: #204731
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1511 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1518 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1524 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1530 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1533 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1534 removal. Closes: #204286
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1538 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1541 renaming. Closes: #203548
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1545 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1548 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1549 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1553 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1559 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1565 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1571 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1574 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1575 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1576 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1580 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1583 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1584 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1588 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1594 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1601 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1604 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1609 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1612 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1616 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1619 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1621 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1622 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1626 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1629 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1634 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1637 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1641 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1647 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1649 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1653 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1656 it break hard links (see #188663).
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1660 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1663 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1667 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1673 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1677 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1678 debconf-mergetemplates
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1682 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1685 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1689 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1692 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1696 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1699 * Update debhelper(1).
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1703 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1706 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1707 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1708 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1709 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1710 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1714 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1717 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1718 the shell. Closes: #178524
1719 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1723 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1726 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1730 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1733 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1737 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1740 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1741 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1742 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1743 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1748 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1751 files from installation.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1755 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1758 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1759 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1763 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1766 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1770 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1773 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1777 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1783 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1789 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1793 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1794 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1796 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1800 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1803 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1804 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1805 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1806 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1810 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1813 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1817 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1820 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1821 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1825 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1829 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1834 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1840 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1844 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1845 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1846 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1851 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1854 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1855 practice. Closes: #163303
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1859 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1865 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1872 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1875 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1877 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1878 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1879 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1880 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1881 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1885 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1888 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1893 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1899 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1906 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1909 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1914 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1920 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1926 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1932 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1939 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1942 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1943 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1944 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1945 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1950 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1956 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1963 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1966 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1967 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1971 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1974 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1975 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1976 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1977 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1978 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1982 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1985 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1987 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1995 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1999 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2002 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2003 right thing. Closes: #150644
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Stupid, evil typo.
2010 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2024 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2025 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2030 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2036 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2039 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2043 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2046 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2047 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2052 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2055 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2059 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2065 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2068 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2069 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2073 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Removing perl warning message.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2085 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2088 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2089 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2090 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2091 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2092 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2093 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2094 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2095 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2099 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2105 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2112 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2115 debconf-mergetemplate.
2116 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2117 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2121 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2124 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2125 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2126 dh_install, which ...
2127 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2128 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2129 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2130 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2131 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2132 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2133 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2134 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2135 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2136 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2137 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2138 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2139 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2140 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2141 other minor changes.
2142 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2143 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2144 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2145 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2146 course there's -X ..)
2147 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2148 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2149 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2151 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2152 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2153 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2154 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2155 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2160 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2166 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2169 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2173 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2179 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2185 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2191 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2197 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2200 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2201 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2202 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2203 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2205 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2206 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2210 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2216 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2219 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2223 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2226 upset. Closes: #131322
2228 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2230 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2233 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2234 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2235 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2236 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2237 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2238 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2239 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2240 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2241 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2242 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2243 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2244 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2245 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2246 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2247 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2249 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2253 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2256 - Better indenting of generated code.
2257 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2261 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2265 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2266 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2267 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2268 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2269 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2270 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2271 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2275 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2278 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2282 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2285 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2286 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2287 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2288 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2289 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2290 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2291 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2292 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2293 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2294 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2295 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2296 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2297 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2298 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2299 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2304 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2310 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2313 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2314 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2318 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2321 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2322 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2326 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2332 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2335 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2336 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2337 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2338 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2339 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2344 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2350 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2353 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2357 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2360 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2365 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2371 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2374 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2378 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2384 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2388 Also some indentation fixes.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2392 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2395 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2396 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2397 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2398 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2399 Closes: #106514, #85520
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2403 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2409 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2415 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2421 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2427 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2433 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2436 change it in debhelper v4..
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2440 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2446 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2449 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2453 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2456 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2460 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2466 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2469 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2470 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2471 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2472 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2473 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2474 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2475 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2476 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2477 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2478 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2479 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2480 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2484 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2487 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2491 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2498 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2501 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2502 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2503 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2504 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2505 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2506 program those options go to. So, for example,
2507 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2508 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2509 something complex. Closes: #89311
2510 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2514 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2517 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2518 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2519 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2523 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2526 through loop. Closes: #98598
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2530 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Missing semi-colon.
2533 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2534 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2538 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2541 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2542 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2543 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2547 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2550 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2551 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2555 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2558 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2562 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2565 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2566 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2570 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2573 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2574 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2575 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2579 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2582 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2583 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2584 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2588 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2591 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2595 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2601 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2607 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2613 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2619 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2622 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2626 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2629 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2630 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2631 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2632 followed. Closes: #85483
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2636 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2638 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2639 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2640 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2644 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2647 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2648 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2649 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2650 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2651 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2652 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2653 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2654 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2655 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2656 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2657 Closes: #88464, #77743
2658 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2659 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2660 us to deal with that gracefully.
2661 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2663 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2664 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2665 a while, Closes: #51225
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2669 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2675 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2678 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2682 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2686 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2691 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2694 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2695 don't make packlist files.
2696 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2697 debhelper coding standards.
2698 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2699 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2703 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2706 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2710 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2713 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2714 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2715 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2716 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2717 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2718 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2719 but is mildly deprecated.
2720 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2721 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2722 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2723 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2724 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2725 switching to statoverrides..
2726 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2727 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2728 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2729 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2730 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2731 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2733 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2734 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2735 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2736 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2737 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2738 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2739 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2740 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2741 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2743 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2744 variable names, pod man pages).
2745 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2746 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2747 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2748 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2749 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2750 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2751 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2755 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2761 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2768 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2771 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2775 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2777 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2778 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2779 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2783 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2785 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2786 they were previously ignored.
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2790 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2792 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2793 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2797 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2799 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2800 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2801 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2805 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2807 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2811 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2813 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2814 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2818 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2820 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2821 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2822 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2823 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2824 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2825 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2826 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2827 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2828 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2829 it is an obsolete program.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2833 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2835 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2839 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2843 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2845 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2849 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2851 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2853 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2855 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2859 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2865 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * typo: Closes, #78567
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2871 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2877 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2883 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2886 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2887 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2888 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2889 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2890 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2894 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2897 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2902 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2905 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2906 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2907 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2908 backwards-compatability.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2912 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2915 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2916 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2917 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2918 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2919 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2920 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2922 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2923 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2924 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2926 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2928 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2929 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2930 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2931 should now be raised to severity important..
2932 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2933 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2937 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2940 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2945 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2951 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2957 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2963 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2970 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2973 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2974 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2975 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2976 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2980 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2986 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2989 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2990 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2991 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2992 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2993 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2994 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2999 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3002 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3006 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3012 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3015 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3020 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3023 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3024 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3025 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3026 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3030 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3034 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3037 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3040 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3041 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3044 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3046 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3047 the TODO entry about it.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3051 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3058 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3061 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3062 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3066 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3069 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3070 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3071 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3072 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3076 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3082 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3089 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3092 (this appears to be logal).
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3096 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3099 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3100 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3101 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3102 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3106 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3112 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3115 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3116 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3117 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3118 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3122 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3128 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3131 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3135 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3142 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3145 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3146 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3147 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3152 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3159 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3165 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3168 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3169 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3170 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3171 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3172 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3173 notice until v2 is complete.
3174 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3175 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3176 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3177 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3178 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3179 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3181 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3182 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3183 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3184 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3188 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3194 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3201 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3204 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3208 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3215 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3218 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3219 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3220 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3221 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3226 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3229 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3230 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3231 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3236 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3239 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3240 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3244 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3247 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3251 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3254 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3258 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3265 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3268 depend on the build and install targets.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3272 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3275 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3279 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3286 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3292 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3298 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3301 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3302 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3303 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3304 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3305 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3306 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3308 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3309 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3310 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3311 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3312 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3313 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3314 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3318 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3324 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3330 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3333 right place. Closes: #55065
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3337 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3344 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3347 * Copyright date updates.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3351 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3354 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3359 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3365 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3372 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3378 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3384 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3390 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3393 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3394 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3395 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3396 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3397 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3398 bits until all files have been registered.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3402 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * dh_installmanpages:
3405 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3406 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3407 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3408 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3409 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3410 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3411 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3412 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3413 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3414 otherwise change the result at all.
3416 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3417 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3418 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3419 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3420 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3425 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3431 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3434 act on files that don't exist.
3435 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3436 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3437 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3439 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3440 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3441 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3442 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3446 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3452 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3458 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3461 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3465 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3468 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3470 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3471 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3472 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3476 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3479 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3480 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3481 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3482 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3483 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3484 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3485 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3487 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3489 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3493 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3500 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3506 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3512 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3515 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3519 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3525 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3531 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3534 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3535 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3536 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3537 I made some changes, though:
3538 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3539 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3540 that is a clear violation of policy.
3541 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3542 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3543 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3544 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3545 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3546 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3547 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3548 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3549 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3551 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3555 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3561 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3564 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3568 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3571 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3572 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3577 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3583 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3590 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3593 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3594 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3595 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3596 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3597 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3598 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3599 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3603 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3609 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3613 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3614 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3618 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3624 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3627 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3634 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3635 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3639 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3641 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3646 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3650 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3654 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3657 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3658 for the dependancies to be generated.
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3662 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3665 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3669 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3672 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3673 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3674 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3679 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3682 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3683 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3687 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3693 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3699 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3702 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3706 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3712 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3715 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3716 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3717 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3718 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3719 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3720 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3721 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3722 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3723 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3724 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3725 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3726 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3730 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3733 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3734 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3736 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3737 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3738 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3739 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3740 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3741 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3743 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3744 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3748 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3751 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3755 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3762 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3765 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3770 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3773 for building debhelper.
3774 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3778 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3785 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3788 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3792 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3795 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3796 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3797 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3798 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3799 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3800 it's always available.
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3804 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3807 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3808 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3809 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3813 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3816 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3817 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3821 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3827 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3830 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3834 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3840 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3843 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3844 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3845 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3849 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3852 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3857 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3860 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3861 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3863 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3864 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3868 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3874 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3880 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3883 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3887 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3890 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3891 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3893 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3897 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3900 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3901 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3902 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3906 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3909 things if CDPATH is set.
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3913 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3919 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3922 seems to make sense for the transition.
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3926 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3929 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3934 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3937 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3938 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3942 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3945 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3949 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3952 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3953 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3954 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3955 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3959 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3965 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3968 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3969 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3970 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3971 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3972 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3973 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3974 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3975 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3976 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3977 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3982 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3985 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3986 * README: mention doc/v2
3987 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3988 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3992 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3994 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3995 be using this script RSN.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3999 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4002 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4003 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4004 more than 1 init script.
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4008 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4011 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4015 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * Changed perl version detection.
4018 * Changed call to find.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4022 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4025 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4027 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4032 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * Really include dh_installpam.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4038 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4041 * Wrote man page for same.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4045 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4048 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4049 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4054 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4061 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4064 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4065 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4066 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4067 x bit was being set!
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4071 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4074 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4075 well. (Closes: 38900)
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4079 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4082 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4083 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4087 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4093 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4100 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4106 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4109 help from Julian Gilbey.
4110 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4111 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4112 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4113 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4114 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4115 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4116 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4121 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4127 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4134 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4140 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4146 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4149 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4153 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4156 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4160 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4163 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4167 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4173 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4176 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4180 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4186 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4192 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4195 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4196 may be deleted. (#35845)
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4200 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * Various man page enhancements.
4203 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4208 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4211 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4212 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4216 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4219 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4220 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4221 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4223 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4224 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4229 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4235 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * Another very minor typo fix.
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4241 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * Very minor typo fix.
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4247 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4250 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4251 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4255 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4261 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4264 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4265 variables properly (#34850).
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4269 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4275 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4278 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4279 (automatically generated by build process).
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4283 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4285 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4289 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4292 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4293 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4295 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4299 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4302 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4306 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * README: minor typo fix.
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4312 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4315 leave it at that. :-)
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4319 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4325 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4331 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4334 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4335 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4336 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4340 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4343 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4347 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4350 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4354 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4357 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4358 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4359 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4360 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4364 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4367 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4368 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4369 Craig Small for spotting this.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4373 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4376 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4377 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4381 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4387 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4390 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4394 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4396 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4397 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4398 working on the last version of debhelper.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4402 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4405 being made. (#23255)
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4409 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4415 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4418 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4422 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4425 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4426 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4427 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4428 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4432 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4435 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4436 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4437 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4438 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4440 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4441 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4443 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4448 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4454 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4460 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4463 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4464 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4465 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4466 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4467 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4468 suidregister actually supports it.
4469 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4470 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4474 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4481 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4484 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4485 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4486 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4487 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4488 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4489 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4490 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4494 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4496 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4497 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4501 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4504 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4505 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4506 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4507 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4511 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4514 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4516 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4517 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4518 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4519 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4520 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4521 effect, either. (#30118)
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4525 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4531 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4533 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4534 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4535 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4539 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4545 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4548 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4549 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4550 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4551 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4555 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4558 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4559 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4563 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4569 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4572 packages, painlessly.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4576 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4582 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4588 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4594 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * The perl conversion is complete.
4598 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4600 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4601 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4602 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4607 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4610 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4611 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4612 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4616 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4619 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4621 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4623 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4624 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4628 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4631 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4632 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4636 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4642 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4645 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4646 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4647 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4648 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4649 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4653 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4656 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4657 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4658 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4659 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4663 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4666 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4670 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4673 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4674 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4675 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4676 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4677 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4678 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4679 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4680 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4684 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4690 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4693 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4694 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4695 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4700 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4703 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4707 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4710 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4714 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4717 sections of shared libraries.
4718 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4719 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4720 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4721 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4722 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4723 things you don't want them to.
4724 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4725 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4729 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4732 shared libraries. (#26414)
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4736 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4738 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4739 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4740 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4741 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4745 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4749 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4751 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4752 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4753 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4754 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4755 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4759 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4762 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4766 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4769 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4770 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4775 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4778 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4782 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4785 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4786 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4787 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4788 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4789 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4791 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4792 remove debian/files properly.
4793 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4794 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4795 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4796 * Removed bogus menu file.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4800 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4803 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4807 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4810 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4811 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4812 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4813 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4814 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4815 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4819 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4822 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4823 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4824 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4825 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4829 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4836 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4839 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4840 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4842 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4843 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4844 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4845 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4846 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4847 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4851 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4854 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4855 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4856 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4857 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4858 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4859 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4860 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4861 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4862 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4863 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4864 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4865 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4866 passed any switches.
4867 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4871 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4874 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4875 at all for a long while.
4876 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4877 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4878 large chunks in the process.
4879 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4880 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4881 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4886 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4889 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4891 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4896 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4899 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4900 that don't always have the same files in them.
4901 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4902 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4903 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4907 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4911 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4912 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4913 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4914 updating 27 man pages.
4915 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4916 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4917 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4918 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4919 programs act on. (#25247)
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4923 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4927 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4928 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4929 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4930 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4931 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4932 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4937 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4944 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4951 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4954 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4958 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4964 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4967 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4968 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4969 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4970 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4971 package by accident.
4972 * Is version 1.0 next?
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4976 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4979 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4980 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4984 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4987 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4988 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4989 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4990 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4991 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4993 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4998 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5001 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5002 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5006 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5009 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5013 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5016 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5017 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5022 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5028 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5030 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5031 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5032 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5037 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5043 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5046 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5047 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5048 past week. Thanks, guys!
5050 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5051 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5052 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5053 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5054 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5055 would do in the same situation.
5056 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5057 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5059 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5061 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5062 permissions changed.
5063 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5064 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5065 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5066 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5067 files are treated identically.
5068 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5069 * Minor man page fixes.
5070 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5071 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5072 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5076 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5079 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5080 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5081 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5082 use -X multiple times, too.
5083 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5084 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5088 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5091 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5092 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5096 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5099 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5103 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5106 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5107 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5108 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5109 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5110 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5111 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5112 shape if you're starting a new package.
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5116 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5119 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5123 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5126 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5127 because of missing symlinks.
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5131 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5137 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5140 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5141 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5142 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5143 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5144 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5146 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5147 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5151 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5153 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5154 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5155 to be changed after the fact :-)
5156 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5160 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5162 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5163 no version string after the -V.
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5167 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5169 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5170 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5175 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5178 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5182 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5185 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5186 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5187 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5188 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5189 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5190 I always welcome corrections!
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5194 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5200 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5203 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5204 * Documented this new switch.
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5208 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5211 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5212 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5213 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5214 no packages use the old behavior.
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5218 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5221 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5222 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5226 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5229 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5233 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5239 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5242 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5246 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5249 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5250 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5251 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5255 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5257 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5261 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5263 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5264 into the source package by accident.
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5268 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5271 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5272 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5273 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5274 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5275 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5276 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5281 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5285 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5286 inspired to implement some of it.
5287 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5291 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5294 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5298 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5301 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5302 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5306 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5309 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5310 have done.) (#17598)
5312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5314 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5316 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5320 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5326 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5329 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5333 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5335 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5336 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5337 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5341 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5344 argument processor in perl.
5345 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5346 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5347 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5348 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5352 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5355 type directories. (#16933)
5356 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5357 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5358 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5359 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5360 are supported. (#16935)
5361 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5366 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5369 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5373 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5377 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5378 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5379 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5380 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5381 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5382 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5386 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5389 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5390 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5392 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5393 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5394 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5395 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5396 a given package, or -i or -a.
5397 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5398 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5399 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5400 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5401 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5402 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5403 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5404 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5405 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5407 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5408 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5409 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5413 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5416 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5417 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5422 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5425 does not have a section.
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5429 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5432 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5433 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5434 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5438 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * Fixed typo #16215.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5444 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5447 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5448 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5449 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5450 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5451 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5456 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5459 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5460 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5461 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5466 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5472 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5478 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5480 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5481 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5482 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5483 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5484 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5485 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5486 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5490 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5496 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5499 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5503 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5506 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5507 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5508 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5512 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5515 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5519 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5525 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5528 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5532 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5535 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5539 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5545 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5548 postinst, postrm, etc.
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5552 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5558 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5561 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5562 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5563 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5564 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5565 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5569 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5572 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5573 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5577 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5580 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5584 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5587 installing package files into.
5588 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5593 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5597 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5601 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5607 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5610 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5614 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5617 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5618 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5619 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5620 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5624 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5626 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5627 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5628 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5629 multiple binary packages.
5630 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5631 should rebuild them with this version.
5632 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5636 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5639 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5643 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5645 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5646 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5650 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5653 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5654 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5655 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5656 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5657 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5658 debian/README.debian.
5659 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5660 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5661 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5662 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5663 in a few situations.)
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5667 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5673 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5679 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5682 * Fixed several man pages.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5686 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5689 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5690 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5694 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5697 is ready for general use.
5698 * Added man pages for all commands.
5699 * Multiple binary package support.
5700 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5701 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5702 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5704 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5705 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5706 auto-installed as parameters.
5707 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5709 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5712 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5713 the package build directory it is to act on.
5714 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5715 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5716 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5720 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5722 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5723 ready to replace debstd.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400