1 debhelper (5.0.36) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
4 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
7 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jun 2006 17:00:06 -0400
11 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
13 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
14 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
15 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
16 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
17 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
18 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
22 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
28 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
34 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
35 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
39 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
42 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
46 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
50 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
51 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
53 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
54 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
57 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
58 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
59 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
60 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
61 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
62 new directory on their own.
63 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
64 * Fix broken directory removal code.
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
68 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
71 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
72 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
73 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
74 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
78 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
81 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
82 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
83 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
84 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
85 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
89 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
95 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Typo. Closes: #358904
99 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
100 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
104 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
105 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
109 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
111 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
112 || exit 0 instead of the intended
114 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
115 ignored. Closes: #337664
117 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
122 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
124 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
128 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
133 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
134 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
135 the dh_installdebconf manpage
136 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
137 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
138 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
139 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
143 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
146 version. Closes: #350607
147 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
148 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
149 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
150 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
154 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
157 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
158 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
159 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
163 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
170 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Minor bug fix from last release.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
176 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
179 language guessing. Closes: #193221
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
183 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
186 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
187 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
188 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
189 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
190 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
191 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
195 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
198 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
199 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
204 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
207 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
211 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
214 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
218 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
221 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
222 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
223 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
224 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
225 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
226 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
230 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
233 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
234 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
235 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
236 link. Closes: #346405
237 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
240 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
241 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
242 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
243 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
244 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
245 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
249 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
256 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
258 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
262 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
265 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
269 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
272 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
277 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
281 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
282 installed. Closes: #342033
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
286 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
289 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
290 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
291 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
296 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
302 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
308 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
312 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
313 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
314 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
318 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
321 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
326 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
333 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
339 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
341 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
342 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
343 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
344 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
345 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
346 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
347 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
348 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
350 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
354 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
356 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
357 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
358 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
362 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
365 in standard man dirs.
366 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
370 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
376 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
379 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
384 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
391 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
398 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
401 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
402 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
406 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
408 * NMU with maintainer approval.
409 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
410 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
411 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
413 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
415 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
421 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
427 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
430 mode. Closes: #324161
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
434 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
437 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
438 behavior change. Closes: #249815
439 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
440 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
445 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
448 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
449 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
450 is necesary for sanity.
451 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
452 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
457 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
459 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
460 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
464 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
467 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
471 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
477 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
480 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
481 released, so use at your own risk.
482 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
483 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
485 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
486 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
487 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
488 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
489 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
490 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
491 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
492 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
493 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
494 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
495 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
496 including twice per config file line now..
497 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
498 and simplfy the rules file.
499 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
500 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
501 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
503 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
504 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
508 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
511 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
515 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
517 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
518 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
522 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
524 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
525 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
529 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
532 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
533 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
534 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
535 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
536 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
537 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
541 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
544 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
545 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
546 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
551 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
554 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
555 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
560 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_installmime: Patch from LoĂŻc Minier to add support for instlaling
563 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
564 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
565 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
570 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
573 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
574 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
575 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
579 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
585 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
592 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
595 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
596 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
597 unknown. Closes: #282924
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
601 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
608 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Spanish man page updates.
611 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
616 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
622 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
625 * dh_desktop: reindent
626 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
627 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
631 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
637 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
639 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
643 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
645 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
649 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
652 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
653 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
657 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
663 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
669 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
676 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
679 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
683 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
686 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
687 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
688 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
689 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
690 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
691 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
693 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
694 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
695 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
696 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
697 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
698 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
699 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
700 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
701 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
702 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
703 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
704 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
705 in the others, and added a few new tests.
706 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
707 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
708 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
712 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
719 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
722 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
726 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
729 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
733 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
736 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
740 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
743 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
747 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
753 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
759 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
765 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
768 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
769 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
770 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
774 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
777 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
781 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
784 but occasionally right and necessary.
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
788 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
791 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
792 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
793 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
794 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
795 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
799 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
802 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
804 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
805 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
806 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
807 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
808 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
809 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
810 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
811 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
812 postinst scripts for udebs.
813 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
817 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
820 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
822 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
823 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
827 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
833 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
840 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
847 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
850 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
854 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
856 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
857 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
861 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
864 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
867 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
868 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
872 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
878 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
881 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
885 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
888 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
889 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
890 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
892 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
894 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
895 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
896 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
900 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
903 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
908 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
911 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
912 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
913 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
918 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
924 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
930 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
933 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
934 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
935 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
936 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
937 associated -dbg packages.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
941 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
944 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
948 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
951 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
955 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
958 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
962 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
965 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
970 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
972 * Typo. Closes: #207999
973 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
977 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
980 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
985 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
988 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
992 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
996 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
997 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
998 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
999 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1000 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1001 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1002 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1003 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1004 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1005 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1009 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1012 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1017 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1020 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1021 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1025 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1028 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1029 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1034 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1037 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1041 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1044 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1048 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1051 out section number. Closes: #204731
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1055 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1062 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1068 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1074 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1077 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1078 removal. Closes: #204286
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1082 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1085 renaming. Closes: #203548
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1089 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1092 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1093 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1097 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1103 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1109 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1115 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1118 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1119 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1120 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1124 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1127 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1128 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1132 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1138 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1145 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1148 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1153 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1156 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1160 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1163 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1165 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1166 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1170 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1173 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1178 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1181 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1185 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1191 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1193 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1197 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1200 it break hard links (see #188663).
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1204 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1207 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1211 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1217 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1221 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1222 debconf-mergetemplates
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1226 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1229 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1233 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1236 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1240 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1243 * Update debhelper(1).
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1247 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1250 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1251 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1252 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1253 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1254 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1258 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1261 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1262 the shell. Closes: #178524
1263 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1267 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1270 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1274 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1277 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1281 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1284 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1285 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1286 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1287 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1292 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1295 files from installation.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1299 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1302 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1303 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1307 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1310 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1314 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1317 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1321 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1327 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1333 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1337 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1338 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1340 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1344 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1347 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1348 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1349 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1350 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1354 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1357 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1361 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1364 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1365 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1369 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1373 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1378 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1384 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1388 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1389 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1390 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1395 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1398 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1399 practice. Closes: #163303
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1403 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1409 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1416 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1419 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1421 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1422 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1423 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1424 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1425 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1429 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1432 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1437 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1443 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1450 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1453 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1458 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1464 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1470 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1476 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1483 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1486 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1487 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1488 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1489 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1494 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1500 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1507 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1510 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1511 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1515 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1518 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1519 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1520 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1521 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1522 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1526 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1529 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1531 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1536 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1539 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1543 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1546 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1547 right thing. Closes: #150644
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1551 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Stupid, evil typo.
1554 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1558 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1565 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1568 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1569 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1574 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1580 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1583 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1587 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1590 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1591 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1596 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1599 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1603 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1609 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1612 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1613 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1617 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1623 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Removing perl warning message.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1629 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1632 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1633 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1634 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1635 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1636 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1637 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1638 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1639 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1643 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1649 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1656 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1659 debconf-mergetemplate.
1660 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1661 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1665 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1668 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1669 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1670 dh_install, which ...
1671 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1672 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1673 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1674 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1675 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1676 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1677 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1678 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1679 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1680 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1681 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1682 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1683 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1684 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1685 other minor changes.
1686 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1687 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1688 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1689 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1690 course there's -X ..)
1691 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1692 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1693 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1695 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1696 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1697 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1698 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1699 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1704 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1710 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1713 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1717 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1723 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1729 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1735 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1741 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1744 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1745 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1746 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1747 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1749 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1750 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1754 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1760 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1763 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1767 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1770 upset. Closes: #131322
1772 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1774 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1777 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1778 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1779 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1780 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1781 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1782 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1783 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1784 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1785 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1786 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1787 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1788 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1789 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1790 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1791 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1793 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1797 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1800 - Better indenting of generated code.
1801 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1805 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1809 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1810 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1811 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1812 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1813 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1814 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1815 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1819 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1822 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1826 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1829 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1830 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1831 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1832 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1833 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1834 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1835 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1836 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1837 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1838 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1839 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1840 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1841 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1842 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1843 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1848 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1854 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1857 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1858 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1862 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1865 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1866 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1870 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1876 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1879 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1880 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1881 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1882 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1883 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1888 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1894 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1897 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1901 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1904 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1909 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1915 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1918 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1922 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1928 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1932 Also some indentation fixes.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1936 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1939 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1940 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1941 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1942 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1943 Closes: #106514, #85520
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1947 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1953 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1959 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1965 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1971 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1977 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1980 change it in debhelper v4..
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1984 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1990 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1993 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1997 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2000 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2004 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2010 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2013 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2014 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2015 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2016 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2017 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2018 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2019 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2020 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2021 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2022 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2023 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2024 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2028 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2031 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2035 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2042 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2045 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2046 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2047 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2048 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2049 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2050 program those options go to. So, for example,
2051 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2052 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2053 something complex. Closes: #89311
2054 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2058 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2061 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2062 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2063 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2067 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2070 through loop. Closes: #98598
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2074 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Missing semi-colon.
2077 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2078 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2082 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2085 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2086 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2087 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2091 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2094 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2095 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2099 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2102 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2106 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2109 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2110 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2114 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2117 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2118 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2119 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2123 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2126 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2127 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2128 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2132 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2135 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2139 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2145 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2151 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2157 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2163 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2166 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2170 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2173 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2174 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2175 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2176 followed. Closes: #85483
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2180 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2182 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2183 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2184 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2188 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2191 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2192 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2193 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2194 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2195 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2196 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2197 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2198 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2199 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2200 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2201 Closes: #88464, #77743
2202 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2203 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2204 us to deal with that gracefully.
2205 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2207 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2208 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2209 a while, Closes: #51225
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2213 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2219 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2222 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2226 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2230 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2235 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2238 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2239 don't make packlist files.
2240 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2241 debhelper coding standards.
2242 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2243 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2247 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2250 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2254 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2257 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2258 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2259 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2260 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2261 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2262 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2263 but is mildly deprecated.
2264 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2265 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2266 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2267 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2268 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2269 switching to statoverrides..
2270 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2271 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2272 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2273 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2274 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2275 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2277 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2278 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2279 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2280 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2281 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2282 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2283 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2284 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2285 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2287 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2288 variable names, pod man pages).
2289 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2290 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2291 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2292 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2293 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2294 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2295 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2299 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2305 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2312 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2315 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2319 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2321 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2322 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2323 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2327 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2329 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2330 they were previously ignored.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2334 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2336 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2337 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2341 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2343 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2344 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2345 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2349 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2351 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2355 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2357 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2358 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2362 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2364 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2365 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2366 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2367 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2368 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2369 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2370 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2371 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2372 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2373 it is an obsolete program.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2377 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2379 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2383 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2387 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2389 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2393 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2395 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2397 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2399 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2403 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2409 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * typo: Closes, #78567
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2415 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2421 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2427 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2430 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2431 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2432 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2433 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2434 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2438 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2441 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2446 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2449 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2450 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2451 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2452 backwards-compatability.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2456 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2459 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2460 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2461 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2462 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2463 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2464 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2466 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2467 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2468 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2470 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2472 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2473 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2474 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2475 should now be raised to severity important..
2476 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2477 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2481 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2484 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2489 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2495 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2501 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2507 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2514 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2517 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2518 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2519 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2520 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2524 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2530 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2533 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2534 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2535 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2536 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2537 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2538 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2543 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2546 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2550 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2556 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2559 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2564 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2567 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2568 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2569 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2570 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2574 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2578 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2581 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2584 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2585 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2588 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2590 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2591 the TODO entry about it.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2595 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2602 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2605 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2606 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2610 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2613 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2614 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2615 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2616 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2620 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2626 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2633 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2636 (this appears to be logal).
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2640 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2643 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2644 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2645 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2646 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2650 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2656 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2659 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2660 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2661 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2662 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2666 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2672 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2675 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2679 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2686 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2689 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2690 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2691 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2696 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2703 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2709 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2712 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2713 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2714 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2715 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2716 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2717 notice until v2 is complete.
2718 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2719 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2720 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2721 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2722 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2723 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2725 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2726 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2727 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2728 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2732 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2738 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2745 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2748 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2752 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2759 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2762 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2763 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2764 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2765 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2770 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2773 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2774 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2775 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2780 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2783 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2784 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2788 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2791 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2795 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2798 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2802 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2809 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2812 depend on the build and install targets.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2816 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2819 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2823 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2830 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2836 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2842 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2845 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2846 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2847 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2848 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2849 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2850 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2852 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2853 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2854 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2855 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2856 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2857 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2858 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2862 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2868 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2874 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2877 right place. Closes: #55065
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2881 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2888 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2891 * Copyright date updates.
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2895 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2898 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2903 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2909 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2916 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2922 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2928 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2934 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2937 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2938 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2939 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2940 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2941 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2942 bits until all files have been registered.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2946 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_installmanpages:
2949 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2950 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2951 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2952 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2953 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2954 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2955 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2956 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2957 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2958 otherwise change the result at all.
2960 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2961 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2962 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2963 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2964 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2969 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2975 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2978 act on files that don't exist.
2979 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2980 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2981 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2983 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2984 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2985 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2986 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2990 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2996 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3002 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3005 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3009 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3012 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3014 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3015 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3016 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3020 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3023 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3024 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3025 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3026 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3027 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3028 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3029 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3031 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3033 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3037 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3044 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3050 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3056 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3059 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3063 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3069 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3075 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3078 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3079 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3080 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3081 I made some changes, though:
3082 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3083 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3084 that is a clear violation of policy.
3085 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3086 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3087 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3088 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3089 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3090 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3091 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3092 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3093 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3095 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3099 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3105 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3108 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3112 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3115 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3116 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3121 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3127 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3134 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3137 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3138 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3139 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3140 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3141 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3142 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3143 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3147 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3153 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3157 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3158 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3162 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3168 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3171 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3175 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3178 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3179 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3183 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3185 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3190 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3194 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3198 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3201 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3202 for the dependancies to be generated.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3206 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3209 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3213 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3216 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3217 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3218 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3223 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3226 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3227 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3231 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3237 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3243 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3246 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3250 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3256 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3259 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3260 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3261 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3262 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3263 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3264 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3265 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3266 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3267 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3268 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3269 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3270 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3274 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3277 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3278 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3280 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3281 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3282 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3283 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3284 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3285 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3287 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3288 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3292 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3295 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3299 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3306 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3309 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3314 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3317 for building debhelper.
3318 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3322 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3329 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3332 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3336 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3339 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3340 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3341 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3342 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3343 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3344 it's always available.
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3348 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3351 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3352 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3353 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3357 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3360 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3361 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3365 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3371 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3374 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3378 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3384 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3387 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3388 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3389 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3393 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3396 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3401 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3404 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3405 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3407 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3408 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3412 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3418 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3424 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3427 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3431 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3434 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3435 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3437 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3441 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3444 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3445 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3446 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3450 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3453 things if CDPATH is set.
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3457 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3463 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3466 seems to make sense for the transition.
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3470 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3473 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3478 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3481 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3482 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3486 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3489 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3493 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3496 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3497 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3498 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3499 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3503 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3509 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3512 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3513 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3514 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3515 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3516 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3517 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3518 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3519 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3520 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3521 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3526 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3529 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3530 * README: mention doc/v2
3531 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3532 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3536 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3538 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3539 be using this script RSN.
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3543 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3546 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3547 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3548 more than 1 init script.
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3552 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3555 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3559 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Changed perl version detection.
3562 * Changed call to find.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3566 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3569 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3571 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3576 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * Really include dh_installpam.
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3582 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3585 * Wrote man page for same.
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3589 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3592 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3593 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3598 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3605 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3608 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3609 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3610 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3611 x bit was being set!
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3615 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3618 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3619 well. (Closes: 38900)
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3623 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3626 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3627 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3631 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3637 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3644 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3650 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3653 help from Julian Gilbey.
3654 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3655 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3656 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3657 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3658 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3659 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3660 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3665 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3671 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3678 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3684 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3690 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3693 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3697 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3700 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3704 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3707 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3711 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3717 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3720 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3724 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3730 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3736 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3739 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3740 may be deleted. (#35845)
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3744 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Various man page enhancements.
3747 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3752 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3755 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3756 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3760 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3763 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3764 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3765 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3767 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3768 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3773 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3779 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * Another very minor typo fix.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3785 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * Very minor typo fix.
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3791 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3794 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3795 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3799 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3805 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3808 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3809 variables properly (#34850).
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3813 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3819 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3822 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3823 (automatically generated by build process).
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3827 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3829 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3833 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3836 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3837 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3839 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3843 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3846 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3850 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * README: minor typo fix.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3856 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3859 leave it at that. :-)
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3863 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3869 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3875 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3878 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3879 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3880 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3884 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3887 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3891 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3894 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3898 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3901 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3902 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3903 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3904 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3908 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3911 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3912 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3913 Craig Small for spotting this.
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3917 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3920 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3921 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3925 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3931 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3934 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3938 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3940 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3941 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3942 working on the last version of debhelper.
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3946 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3949 being made. (#23255)
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3953 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3959 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3962 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3966 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3969 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3970 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3971 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3972 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3976 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3979 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3980 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3981 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3982 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3984 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3985 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3987 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3992 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3998 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4004 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4007 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4008 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4009 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4010 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4011 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4012 suidregister actually supports it.
4013 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4014 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4018 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4025 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4028 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4029 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4030 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4031 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4032 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4033 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4034 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4038 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4040 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4041 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4045 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4048 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4049 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4050 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4051 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4055 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4058 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4060 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4061 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4062 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4063 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4064 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4065 effect, either. (#30118)
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4069 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4075 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4078 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4079 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4083 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4089 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4092 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4093 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4094 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4095 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4099 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4102 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4103 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4107 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4113 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4116 packages, painlessly.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4120 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4126 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4132 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4138 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * The perl conversion is complete.
4142 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4144 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4145 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4146 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4151 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4154 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4155 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4156 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4160 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4163 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4165 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4167 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4168 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4172 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4175 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4176 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4180 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4186 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4189 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4190 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4191 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4192 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4193 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4197 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4200 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4201 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4202 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4203 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4207 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4210 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4214 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4216 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4217 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4218 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4219 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4220 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4221 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4222 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4223 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4224 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4228 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4234 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4237 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4238 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4239 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4244 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4247 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4251 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4254 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4258 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4261 sections of shared libraries.
4262 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4263 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4264 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4265 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4266 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4267 things you don't want them to.
4268 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4269 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4273 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4276 shared libraries. (#26414)
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4280 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4282 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4283 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4284 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4285 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4289 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4293 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4295 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4296 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4297 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4298 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4299 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4303 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4306 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4310 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4313 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4314 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4319 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4322 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4326 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4329 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4330 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4331 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4332 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4333 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4335 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4336 remove debian/files properly.
4337 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4338 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4339 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4340 * Removed bogus menu file.
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4344 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4347 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4351 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4354 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4355 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4356 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4357 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4358 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4359 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4363 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4366 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4367 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4368 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4369 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4373 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4380 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4383 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4384 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4386 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4387 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4388 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4389 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4390 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4391 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4395 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4398 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4399 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4400 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4401 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4402 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4403 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4404 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4405 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4406 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4407 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4408 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4409 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4410 passed any switches.
4411 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4415 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4418 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4419 at all for a long while.
4420 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4421 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4422 large chunks in the process.
4423 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4424 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4425 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4430 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4433 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4435 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4440 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4443 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4444 that don't always have the same files in them.
4445 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4446 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4447 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4451 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4455 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4456 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4457 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4458 updating 27 man pages.
4459 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4460 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4461 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4462 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4463 programs act on. (#25247)
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4467 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4471 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4472 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4473 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4474 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4475 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4476 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4481 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4488 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4495 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4498 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4502 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4508 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4511 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4512 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4513 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4514 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4515 package by accident.
4516 * Is version 1.0 next?
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4520 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4523 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4524 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4528 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4531 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4532 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4533 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4534 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4535 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4537 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4542 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4545 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4546 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4550 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4552 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4553 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4557 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4560 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4561 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4566 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4568 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4572 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4575 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4576 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4581 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4587 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4590 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4591 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4592 past week. Thanks, guys!
4594 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4595 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4596 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4597 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4598 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4599 would do in the same situation.
4600 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4601 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4603 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4605 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4606 permissions changed.
4607 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4608 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4609 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4610 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4611 files are treated identically.
4612 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4613 * Minor man page fixes.
4614 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4615 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4616 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4620 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4623 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4624 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4625 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4626 use -X multiple times, too.
4627 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4628 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4632 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4635 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4636 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4640 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4643 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4647 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4650 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4651 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4652 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4653 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4654 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4655 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4656 shape if you're starting a new package.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4660 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4663 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4667 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4670 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4671 because of missing symlinks.
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4675 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4681 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4684 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4685 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4686 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4687 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4688 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4690 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4691 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4695 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4697 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4698 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4699 to be changed after the fact :-)
4700 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4704 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4706 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4707 no version string after the -V.
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4711 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4713 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4714 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4719 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4722 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4726 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4729 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4730 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4731 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4732 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4733 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4734 I always welcome corrections!
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4738 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4744 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4747 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4748 * Documented this new switch.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4752 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4755 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4756 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4757 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4758 no packages use the old behavior.
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4762 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4765 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4766 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4770 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4773 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4777 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4783 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4786 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4790 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4793 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4794 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4795 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4799 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4805 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4808 into the source package by accident.
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4812 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4815 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4816 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4817 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4818 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4819 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4820 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4825 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4829 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4830 inspired to implement some of it.
4831 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4835 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4838 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4842 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4845 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4846 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4850 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4852 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4853 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4854 have done.) (#17598)
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4858 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4864 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4870 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4873 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4877 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4880 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4881 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4885 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4888 argument processor in perl.
4889 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4890 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4891 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4892 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4896 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4899 type directories. (#16933)
4900 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4901 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4902 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4903 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4904 are supported. (#16935)
4905 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4910 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4913 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4917 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4921 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4922 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4923 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4924 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4925 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4926 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4930 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4933 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4934 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4936 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4937 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4938 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4939 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4940 a given package, or -i or -a.
4941 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4942 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4943 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4944 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4945 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4946 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4947 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4948 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4949 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4951 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4952 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4953 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4957 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4960 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4961 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4966 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4969 does not have a section.
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4973 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4976 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4977 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4978 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4982 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * Fixed typo #16215.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4988 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4991 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4992 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4993 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4994 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4995 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5000 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5003 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5004 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5005 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5010 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5016 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5022 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5025 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5026 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5027 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5028 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5029 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5030 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5034 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5040 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5043 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5047 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5050 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5051 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5052 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5056 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5059 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5063 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5069 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5072 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5076 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5079 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5083 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5089 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5092 postinst, postrm, etc.
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5096 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5102 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5105 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5106 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5107 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5108 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5109 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5113 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5116 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5117 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5121 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5124 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5128 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5131 installing package files into.
5132 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5137 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5141 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5145 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5151 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5154 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5158 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5161 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5162 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5163 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5164 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5168 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5170 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5171 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5172 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5173 multiple binary packages.
5174 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5175 should rebuild them with this version.
5176 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5180 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5183 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5187 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5190 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5194 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5197 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5198 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5199 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5200 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5201 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5202 debian/README.debian.
5203 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5204 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5205 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5206 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5207 in a few situations.)
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5211 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5217 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5223 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5226 * Fixed several man pages.
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5230 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5233 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5234 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5238 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5241 is ready for general use.
5242 * Added man pages for all commands.
5243 * Multiple binary package support.
5244 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5245 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5246 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5248 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5249 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5250 auto-installed as parameters.
5251 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5253 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5256 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5257 the package build directory it is to act on.
5258 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5259 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5260 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5264 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5266 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5267 ready to replace debstd.
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400