1 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
4 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
5 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
6 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
11 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
13 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
17 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
19 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
23 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
27 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
28 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
29 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
33 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
36 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
41 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
48 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
54 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
56 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
57 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
58 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
59 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
60 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
61 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
62 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
63 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
65 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
69 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
72 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
73 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
77 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
81 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
85 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
91 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
94 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
99 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
106 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
113 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
116 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
117 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
121 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
123 * NMU with maintainer approval.
124 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
125 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
126 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
128 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
130 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
136 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
142 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
145 mode. Closes: #324161
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
149 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
152 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
153 behavior change. Closes: #249815
154 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
155 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
160 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
162 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
163 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
164 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
165 is necesary for sanity.
166 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
167 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
172 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
174 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
175 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
179 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
182 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
186 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
192 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
195 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
196 released, so use at your own risk.
197 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
198 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
200 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
201 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
202 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
203 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
204 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
205 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
206 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
207 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
208 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
209 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
210 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
211 including twice per config file line now..
212 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
213 and simplfy the rules file.
214 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
215 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
216 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
218 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
219 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
223 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
226 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
230 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
233 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
237 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
239 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
240 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
244 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
247 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
248 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
249 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
250 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
251 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
252 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
256 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
259 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
260 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
261 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
266 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
269 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
270 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
275 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
278 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
279 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
280 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
285 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
288 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
289 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
290 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
294 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
300 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
307 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
310 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
311 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
312 unknown. Closes: #282924
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
316 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
323 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Spanish man page updates.
326 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
331 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
337 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
340 * dh_desktop: reindent
341 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
342 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
346 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
352 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
354 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
358 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
360 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
364 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
367 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
368 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
372 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
378 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
384 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
391 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
394 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
398 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
401 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
402 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
403 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
404 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
405 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
406 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
408 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
409 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
410 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
411 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
412 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
413 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
414 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
415 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
416 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
417 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
418 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
419 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
420 in the others, and added a few new tests.
421 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
422 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
423 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
427 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
434 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
437 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
441 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
444 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
448 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
451 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
455 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
457 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
458 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
462 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
468 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
474 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
480 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
483 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
484 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
485 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
489 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
491 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
492 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
496 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
499 but occasionally right and necessary.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
503 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
506 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
507 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
508 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
509 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
510 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
514 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
517 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
519 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
520 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
521 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
522 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
523 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
524 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
525 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
526 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
527 postinst scripts for udebs.
528 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
532 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
535 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
537 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
538 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
542 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
548 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
555 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
562 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
565 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
569 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
572 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
576 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
579 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
582 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
583 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
587 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
593 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
596 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
600 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
602 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
603 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
604 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
605 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
607 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
609 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
610 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
611 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
615 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
618 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
623 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
626 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
627 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
628 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
633 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
639 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
645 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
648 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
649 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
650 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
651 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
652 associated -dbg packages.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
656 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
659 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
663 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
666 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
670 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
673 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
677 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
680 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
685 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Typo. Closes: #207999
688 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
692 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
695 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
700 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
703 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
707 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
711 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
712 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
713 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
714 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
715 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
716 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
717 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
718 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
719 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
720 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
724 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
727 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
732 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
735 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
736 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
740 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
743 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
744 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
749 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
752 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
756 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
759 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
763 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
766 out section number. Closes: #204731
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
770 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
777 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
783 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
789 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Typo, Closes: #203907
792 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
793 removal. Closes: #204286
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
797 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
800 renaming. Closes: #203548
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
804 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
806 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
807 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
808 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
812 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
818 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
824 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
830 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
833 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
834 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
835 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
839 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
842 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
843 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
847 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
853 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
860 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
862 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
863 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
868 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
871 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
875 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
878 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
880 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
881 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
885 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
888 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
893 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
896 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
900 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
906 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
908 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
912 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
915 it break hard links (see #188663).
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
919 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
922 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
926 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
932 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
934 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
936 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
937 debconf-mergetemplates
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
941 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
944 pod2man. Closes: #184013
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
948 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
951 * Typo, Closes: #183267
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
955 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
958 * Update debhelper(1).
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
962 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
964 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
965 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
966 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
967 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
968 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
969 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
973 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
976 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
977 the shell. Closes: #178524
978 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
982 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
985 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
989 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
992 undocumented.7 links anymore.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
996 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
998 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
999 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1000 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1001 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1002 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1007 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1010 files from installation.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1014 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1017 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1018 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1022 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1025 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1029 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1032 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1036 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1042 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1048 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1052 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1053 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1055 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1059 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1062 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1063 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1064 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1065 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1069 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1072 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1076 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1079 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1080 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1084 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1088 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1093 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1099 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1103 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1104 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1105 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1110 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1113 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1114 practice. Closes: #163303
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1118 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1124 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1131 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1134 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1136 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1137 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1138 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1139 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1140 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1144 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1147 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1152 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1158 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1165 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1168 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1173 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1179 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1185 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1191 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1198 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1201 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1202 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1203 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1204 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1209 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1215 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1222 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1225 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1226 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1230 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1233 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1234 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1235 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1236 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1237 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1241 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1244 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1246 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1251 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1254 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1258 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1261 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1262 right thing. Closes: #150644
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1266 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Stupid, evil typo.
1269 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1273 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1280 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1283 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1284 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1289 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1295 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1298 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1302 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1305 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1306 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1311 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1314 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1318 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1324 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1327 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1328 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1332 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1338 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Removing perl warning message.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1344 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1347 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1348 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1349 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1350 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1351 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1352 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1353 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1354 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1358 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1364 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1371 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1374 debconf-mergetemplate.
1375 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1376 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1380 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1383 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1384 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1385 dh_install, which ...
1386 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1387 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1388 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1389 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1390 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1391 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1392 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1393 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1394 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1395 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1396 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1397 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1398 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1399 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1400 other minor changes.
1401 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1402 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1403 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1404 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1405 course there's -X ..)
1406 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1407 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1408 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1410 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1411 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1412 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1413 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1414 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1419 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1425 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1428 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1432 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1438 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1444 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1450 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1456 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1459 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1460 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1461 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1462 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1464 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1465 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1469 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1475 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1478 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1482 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1485 upset. Closes: #131322
1487 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1489 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1492 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1493 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1494 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1495 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1496 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1497 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1498 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1499 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1500 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1501 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1502 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1503 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1504 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1505 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1506 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1508 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1512 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1515 - Better indenting of generated code.
1516 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1520 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1524 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1525 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1526 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1527 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1528 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1529 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1530 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1534 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1537 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1541 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1544 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1545 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1546 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1547 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1548 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1549 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1550 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1551 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1552 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1553 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1554 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1555 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1556 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1557 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1558 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1563 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1569 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1572 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1573 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1577 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1580 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1581 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1585 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1591 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1594 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1595 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1596 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1597 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1598 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1603 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1609 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1612 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1616 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1619 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1624 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1630 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1633 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1637 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1643 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1647 Also some indentation fixes.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1651 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1654 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1655 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1656 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1657 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1658 Closes: #106514, #85520
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1662 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1668 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1674 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1680 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1686 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1692 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1695 change it in debhelper v4..
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1699 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1705 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1708 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1712 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1715 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1719 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1725 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1728 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1729 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1730 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1731 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1732 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1733 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1734 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1735 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1736 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1737 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1738 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1739 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1743 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1746 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1750 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1757 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1760 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1761 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1762 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1763 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1764 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1765 program those options go to. So, for example,
1766 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1767 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1768 something complex. Closes: #89311
1769 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1773 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1776 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1777 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1778 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1782 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1785 through loop. Closes: #98598
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1789 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Missing semi-colon.
1792 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1793 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1797 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1800 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1801 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1802 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1806 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1809 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1810 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1814 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1817 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1821 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1824 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1825 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1829 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1832 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1833 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1834 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1838 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1841 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1842 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1843 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1847 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1850 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1854 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1860 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1866 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1872 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1878 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1881 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1885 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1888 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1889 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1890 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1891 followed. Closes: #85483
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1895 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1897 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1898 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1899 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1903 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1906 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1907 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1908 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1909 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1910 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1911 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1912 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1913 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1914 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1915 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1916 Closes: #88464, #77743
1917 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1918 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1919 us to deal with that gracefully.
1920 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1922 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1923 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1924 a while, Closes: #51225
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1928 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1934 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1937 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1941 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1945 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1950 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1953 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1954 don't make packlist files.
1955 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1956 debhelper coding standards.
1957 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1958 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1962 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1965 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1969 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1972 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1973 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1974 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1975 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1976 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1977 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1978 but is mildly deprecated.
1979 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1980 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1981 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1982 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1983 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1984 switching to statoverrides..
1985 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1986 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1987 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1988 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1989 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1990 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1992 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1993 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1994 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1995 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1996 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1997 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1998 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1999 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2000 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2002 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2003 variable names, pod man pages).
2004 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2005 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2006 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2007 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2008 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2009 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2010 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2014 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2020 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2027 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2030 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2034 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2036 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2037 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2038 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2042 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2044 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2045 they were previously ignored.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2049 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2051 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2052 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2056 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2058 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2059 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2060 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2064 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2066 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2070 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2072 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2073 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2077 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2079 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2080 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2081 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2082 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2083 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2084 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2085 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2086 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2087 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2088 it is an obsolete program.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2092 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2094 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2098 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2102 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2104 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2108 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2110 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2112 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2114 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2118 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2124 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * typo: Closes, #78567
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2130 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2136 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2142 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2145 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2146 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2147 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2148 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2149 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2153 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2156 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2161 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2164 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2165 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2166 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2167 backwards-compatability.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2171 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2174 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2175 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2176 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2177 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2178 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2179 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2181 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2182 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2183 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2185 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2187 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2188 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2189 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2190 should now be raised to severity important..
2191 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2192 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2196 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2199 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2204 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2210 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2216 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2222 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2229 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2232 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2233 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2234 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2235 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2239 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2245 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2248 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2249 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2250 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2251 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2252 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2253 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2258 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2261 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2265 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2271 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2274 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2279 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2282 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2283 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2284 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2285 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2289 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2293 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2296 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2299 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2300 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2303 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2305 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2306 the TODO entry about it.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2310 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2317 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2320 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2321 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2325 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2328 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2329 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2330 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2331 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2335 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2341 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2348 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2351 (this appears to be logal).
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2355 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2358 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2359 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2360 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2361 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2365 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2371 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2374 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2375 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2376 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2377 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2381 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2387 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2390 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2394 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2401 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2404 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2405 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2406 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2411 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2418 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2424 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2427 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2428 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2429 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2430 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2431 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2432 notice until v2 is complete.
2433 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2434 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2435 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2436 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2437 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2438 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2440 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2441 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2442 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2443 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2447 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2453 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2460 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2463 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2467 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2474 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2477 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2478 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2479 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2480 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2485 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2488 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2489 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2490 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2495 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2498 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2499 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2503 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2506 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2510 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2513 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2517 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2524 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2527 depend on the build and install targets.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2531 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2534 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2538 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2545 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2551 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2557 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2560 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2561 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2562 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2563 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2564 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2565 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2567 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2568 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2569 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2570 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2571 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2572 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2573 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2577 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2583 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2589 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2592 right place. Closes: #55065
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2596 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2603 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2606 * Copyright date updates.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2610 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2613 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2618 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2624 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2631 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2637 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2643 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2649 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2652 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2653 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2654 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2655 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2656 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2657 bits until all files have been registered.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2661 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_installmanpages:
2664 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2665 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2666 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2667 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2668 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2669 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2670 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2671 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2672 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2673 otherwise change the result at all.
2675 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2676 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2677 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2678 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2679 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2684 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2690 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2693 act on files that don't exist.
2694 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2695 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2696 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2698 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2699 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2700 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2701 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2705 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2711 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2717 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2720 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2724 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2727 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2729 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2730 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2731 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2735 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2738 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2739 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2740 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2741 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2742 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2743 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2744 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2746 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2748 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2752 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2759 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2765 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2771 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2774 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2778 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2784 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2790 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2793 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2794 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2795 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2796 I made some changes, though:
2797 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2798 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2799 that is a clear violation of policy.
2800 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2801 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2802 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2803 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2804 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2805 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2806 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2807 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2808 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2810 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2814 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2820 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2823 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2827 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2830 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2831 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2836 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2842 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2849 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2852 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2853 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2854 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2855 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2856 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2857 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2858 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2862 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2868 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2872 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2873 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2877 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2883 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2886 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2890 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2893 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2894 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2898 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2900 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2905 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2909 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2913 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2916 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2917 for the dependancies to be generated.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2921 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2924 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2928 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2931 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2932 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2933 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2938 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2941 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2942 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2946 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2952 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2958 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2961 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2965 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2971 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2974 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2975 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2976 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2977 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2978 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2979 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2980 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2981 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2982 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2983 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2984 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2985 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2989 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2992 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2993 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2995 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2996 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2997 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2998 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2999 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3000 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3002 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3003 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3007 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3010 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3014 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3021 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3024 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3029 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3032 for building debhelper.
3033 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3037 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3044 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3047 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3051 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3054 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3055 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3056 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3057 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3058 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3059 it's always available.
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3063 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3066 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3067 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3068 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3072 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3075 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3076 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3080 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3086 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3089 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3093 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3099 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3102 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3103 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3104 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3108 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3111 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3116 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3119 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3120 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3122 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3123 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3127 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3133 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3139 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3142 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3146 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3149 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3150 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3152 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3156 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3159 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3160 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3161 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3165 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3168 things if CDPATH is set.
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3172 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3178 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3181 seems to make sense for the transition.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3185 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3188 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3193 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3196 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3197 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3201 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3204 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3208 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3211 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3212 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3213 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3214 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3218 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3224 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3227 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3228 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3229 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3230 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3231 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3232 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3233 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3234 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3235 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3236 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3241 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3244 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3245 * README: mention doc/v2
3246 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3247 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3251 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3253 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3254 be using this script RSN.
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3258 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3261 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3262 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3263 more than 1 init script.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3267 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3270 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3274 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Changed perl version detection.
3277 * Changed call to find.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3281 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3284 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3286 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3291 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Really include dh_installpam.
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3297 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3300 * Wrote man page for same.
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3304 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3307 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3308 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3313 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3320 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3323 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3324 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3325 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3326 x bit was being set!
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3330 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3333 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3334 well. (Closes: 38900)
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3338 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3341 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3342 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3346 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3352 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3359 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3365 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3368 help from Julian Gilbey.
3369 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3370 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3371 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3372 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3373 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3374 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3375 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3380 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3386 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3393 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3399 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3405 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3408 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3412 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3415 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3419 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3422 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3426 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3432 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3435 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3439 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3445 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3451 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3454 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3455 may be deleted. (#35845)
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3459 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * Various man page enhancements.
3462 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3467 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3470 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3471 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3475 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3478 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3479 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3480 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3482 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3483 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3488 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3494 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Another very minor typo fix.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3500 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Very minor typo fix.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3506 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3509 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3510 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3514 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3520 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3523 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3524 variables properly (#34850).
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3528 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3534 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3537 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3538 (automatically generated by build process).
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3542 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3544 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3548 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3551 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3552 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3554 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3558 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3561 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3565 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * README: minor typo fix.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3571 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3574 leave it at that. :-)
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3578 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3584 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3590 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3593 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3594 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3595 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3599 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3602 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3606 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3609 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3613 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3616 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3617 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3618 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3619 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3623 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3626 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3627 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3628 Craig Small for spotting this.
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3632 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3635 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3636 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3640 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3646 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3649 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3653 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3655 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3656 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3657 working on the last version of debhelper.
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3661 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3664 being made. (#23255)
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3668 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3674 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3677 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3681 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3684 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3685 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3686 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3687 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3691 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3694 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3695 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3696 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3697 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3699 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3700 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3702 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3707 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3713 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3719 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3722 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3723 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3724 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3725 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3726 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3727 suidregister actually supports it.
3728 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3729 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3733 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3740 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3743 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3744 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3745 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3746 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3747 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3748 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3749 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3753 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3755 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3756 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3760 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3763 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3764 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3765 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3766 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3770 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3773 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3775 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3776 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3777 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3778 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3779 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3780 effect, either. (#30118)
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3784 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3790 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3793 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3794 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3798 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3804 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3807 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3808 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3809 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3810 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3814 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3817 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3818 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3822 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3828 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3831 packages, painlessly.
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3835 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3841 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3847 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3853 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * The perl conversion is complete.
3857 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3859 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3860 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3861 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3866 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3869 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3870 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3871 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3875 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3878 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3880 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3882 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3883 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3887 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3890 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3891 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3895 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3901 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3904 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3905 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3906 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3907 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3908 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3912 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3915 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3916 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3917 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3918 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3922 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3925 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3929 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3932 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3933 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3934 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3935 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3936 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3937 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3938 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3939 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3943 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3949 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3952 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3953 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3954 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3959 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3962 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3966 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3969 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3973 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3976 sections of shared libraries.
3977 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3978 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3979 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3980 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3981 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3982 things you don't want them to.
3983 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3984 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3988 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3991 shared libraries. (#26414)
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3995 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3997 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3998 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3999 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4000 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4004 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4008 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4010 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4011 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4012 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4013 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4014 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4018 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4021 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4025 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4028 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4029 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4034 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4037 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4041 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4044 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4045 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4046 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4047 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4048 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4050 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4051 remove debian/files properly.
4052 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4053 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4054 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4055 * Removed bogus menu file.
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4059 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4062 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4066 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4069 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4070 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4071 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4072 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4073 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4074 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4078 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4081 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4082 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4083 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4084 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4088 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4095 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4098 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4099 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4101 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4102 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4103 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4104 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4105 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4106 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4110 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4113 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4114 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4115 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4116 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4117 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4118 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4119 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4120 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4121 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4122 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4123 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4124 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4125 passed any switches.
4126 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4130 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4133 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4134 at all for a long while.
4135 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4136 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4137 large chunks in the process.
4138 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4139 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4140 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4145 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4148 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4150 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4155 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4158 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4159 that don't always have the same files in them.
4160 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4161 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4162 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4166 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4170 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4171 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4172 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4173 updating 27 man pages.
4174 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4175 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4176 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4177 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4178 programs act on. (#25247)
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4182 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4186 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4187 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4188 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4189 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4190 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4191 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4196 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4203 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4210 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4213 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4217 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4223 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4226 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4227 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4228 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4229 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4230 package by accident.
4231 * Is version 1.0 next?
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4235 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4238 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4239 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4243 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4246 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4247 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4248 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4249 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4250 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4252 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4257 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4260 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4261 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4265 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4267 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4268 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4272 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4275 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4276 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4281 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4287 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4290 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4291 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4296 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4302 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4305 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4306 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4307 past week. Thanks, guys!
4309 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4310 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4311 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4312 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4313 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4314 would do in the same situation.
4315 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4316 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4318 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4320 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4321 permissions changed.
4322 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4323 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4324 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4325 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4326 files are treated identically.
4327 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4328 * Minor man page fixes.
4329 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4330 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4331 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4335 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4338 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4339 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4340 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4341 use -X multiple times, too.
4342 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4343 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4347 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4350 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4351 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4355 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4358 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4362 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4365 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4366 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4367 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4368 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4369 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4370 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4371 shape if you're starting a new package.
4373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4375 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4377 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4378 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4382 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4385 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4386 because of missing symlinks.
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4390 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4396 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4399 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4400 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4401 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4402 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4403 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4405 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4406 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4410 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4412 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4413 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4414 to be changed after the fact :-)
4415 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4419 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4421 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4422 no version string after the -V.
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4426 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4428 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4429 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4434 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4437 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4441 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4444 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4445 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4446 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4447 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4448 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4449 I always welcome corrections!
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4453 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4459 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4462 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4463 * Documented this new switch.
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4467 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4470 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4471 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4472 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4473 no packages use the old behavior.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4477 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4480 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4481 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4485 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4488 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4492 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4498 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4501 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4505 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4508 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4509 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4510 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4514 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4520 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4523 into the source package by accident.
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4527 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4530 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4531 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4532 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4533 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4534 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4535 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4540 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4544 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4545 inspired to implement some of it.
4546 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4550 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4553 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4557 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4560 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4561 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4565 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4568 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4569 have done.) (#17598)
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4573 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4579 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4581 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4585 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4588 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4592 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4594 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4595 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4596 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4600 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4603 argument processor in perl.
4604 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4605 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4606 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4607 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4611 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4614 type directories. (#16933)
4615 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4616 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4617 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4618 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4619 are supported. (#16935)
4620 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4625 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4628 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4632 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4636 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4637 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4638 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4639 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4640 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4641 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4645 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4648 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4649 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4651 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4652 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4653 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4654 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4655 a given package, or -i or -a.
4656 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4657 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4658 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4659 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4660 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4661 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4662 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4663 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4664 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4666 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4667 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4668 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4672 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4675 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4676 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4681 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4684 does not have a section.
4686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4688 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4690 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4691 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4692 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4693 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4697 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * Fixed typo #16215.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4703 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4706 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4707 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4708 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4709 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4710 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4715 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4718 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4719 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4720 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4725 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4731 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4737 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4740 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4741 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4742 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4743 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4744 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4745 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4749 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4755 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4758 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4762 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4765 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4766 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4767 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4771 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4774 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4778 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4784 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4787 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4791 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4794 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4798 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4804 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4807 postinst, postrm, etc.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4811 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4817 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4820 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4821 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4822 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4823 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4824 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4828 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4831 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4832 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4836 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4839 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4843 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4846 installing package files into.
4847 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4852 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4856 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4860 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4866 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4869 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4873 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4876 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4877 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4878 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4879 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4883 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4885 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4886 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4887 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4888 multiple binary packages.
4889 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4890 should rebuild them with this version.
4891 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4895 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4898 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4902 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4905 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4909 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4912 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4913 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4914 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4915 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4916 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4917 debian/README.debian.
4918 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4919 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4920 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4921 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4922 in a few situations.)
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4926 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4932 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4938 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4941 * Fixed several man pages.
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4945 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4948 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4949 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4953 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4956 is ready for general use.
4957 * Added man pages for all commands.
4958 * Multiple binary package support.
4959 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4960 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4961 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4963 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4964 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4965 auto-installed as parameters.
4966 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4968 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4971 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4972 the package build directory it is to act on.
4973 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4974 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4975 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4979 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4981 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4982 ready to replace debstd.
4984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400