1 debhelper (7.2.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
4 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:26:03 -0400
8 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
12 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
16 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
19 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
20 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
21 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
22 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
27 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
33 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
36 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
37 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
38 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
39 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
40 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
42 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
43 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
44 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
45 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
46 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
47 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
51 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
54 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
55 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
56 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
57 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
58 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
60 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
64 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
66 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
70 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
72 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
73 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
74 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
75 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
76 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
77 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
78 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
79 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
80 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
81 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
82 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
86 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
88 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
89 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
91 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
92 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
93 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
94 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
96 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
97 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
101 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
103 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
104 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
105 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
106 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
107 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
108 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
109 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
111 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
112 that uses them. Affected options are:
113 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
114 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
115 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
116 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
117 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
118 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
119 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
120 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
121 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
122 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
123 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
124 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
128 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
135 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
141 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
143 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
144 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
146 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
147 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
148 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
149 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
150 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
152 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
154 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
155 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
156 rules (see bug #509756).
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
160 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
166 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
167 * Typo. Closes: #493062
168 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
169 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
173 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
175 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
176 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
177 empty files. Closes: #490937
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
181 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
187 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
194 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
197 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
198 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
199 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
200 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
205 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
207 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
208 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
209 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
210 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
214 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
217 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
218 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
219 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
220 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
221 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
225 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
232 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
234 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
235 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
236 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
237 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
238 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
239 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
240 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
241 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
242 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
243 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
247 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
250 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
251 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
252 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
253 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
255 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
256 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
257 breaking backwards compatability.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
261 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
264 message in perl 5.10.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
268 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
274 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Convert copyright file to new format.
277 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
281 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
284 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
288 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
291 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
292 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
293 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
294 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
295 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
296 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
297 logging by dh_listpackages.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
301 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
304 run and there are no packages of that type.
305 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
306 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
307 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
308 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
310 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
311 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
315 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
317 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
318 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
319 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
323 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
326 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
327 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
329 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
330 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
331 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
332 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
333 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
334 planned but not yet implemented.)
335 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
336 if the Makefile has such a target.
337 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
338 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
339 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
340 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
341 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
342 but not yet implemented.)
343 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
344 recommended default, especially when using dh.
345 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
346 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
347 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
349 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
351 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
352 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
354 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
355 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
356 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
361 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
364 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
365 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
369 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
371 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
372 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
373 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
377 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
383 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
389 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
392 just those installed by the program.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
396 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
399 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
400 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
404 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
407 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
408 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
409 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
410 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
414 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
417 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
418 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
422 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
425 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
426 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
430 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
432 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
433 with policy. Closes: #461392
434 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
435 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
436 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
437 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
438 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
442 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
445 Closes: #460340, #460351
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
449 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
452 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
453 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
454 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
455 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
459 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
462 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
463 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
464 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
465 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
466 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
467 package build directory won't work.
468 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
469 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
470 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
471 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
472 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
473 mode. Closes: #459426
474 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
479 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
481 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
482 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
486 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
490 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
491 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
492 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
493 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
494 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
495 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
499 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
502 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
503 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
504 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
505 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
509 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
512 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
513 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
514 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
515 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
516 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
520 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
523 debian/package.triggers files.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
527 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
530 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
534 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
537 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
538 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
539 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
540 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
545 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
548 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
552 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
555 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
556 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
558 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
563 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
567 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
568 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
569 * Typo. Closes: #441272
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
573 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
575 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
580 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
587 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
590 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
592 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
593 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
594 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
596 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
597 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
598 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
602 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
605 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
606 * Update urls to web page.
607 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
609 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
610 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
614 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
617 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
618 - typo in alternatives call
619 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
621 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
622 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
626 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
629 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
634 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
640 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
646 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
648 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
649 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
651 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
652 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
653 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
654 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
655 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
656 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
657 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
658 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
659 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
660 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
661 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
665 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
667 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
668 package install. Closes: #415717
669 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
670 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
671 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
672 script and then remove the python files.
673 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
674 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
675 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
676 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
677 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
678 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
679 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
680 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
681 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
682 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
683 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
684 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
685 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
689 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Correct typo in french translation
695 * Typo. Closes: #400571
696 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
698 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
700 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
701 Closes: #406921, #381940
702 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
704 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
705 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
706 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
707 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
708 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
709 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
710 specified). Closes: #381851
711 * Misc minor changes.
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
715 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
722 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
723 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
727 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
733 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
734 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
737 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
738 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
740 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
741 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
742 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
743 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
747 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
750 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
753 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
757 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
763 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
769 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
770 a difficult situation.
771 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
772 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
773 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
774 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
775 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
776 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
777 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
778 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
779 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
780 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
784 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Non-maintainer upload.
787 * Update of dh_python
788 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
789 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
791 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
792 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
793 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
794 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
795 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
797 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
799 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Non-maintainer upload.
802 * Update of dh_python
803 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
804 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
805 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
806 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
807 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
808 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
809 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
810 specific python version. Closes: #373853
811 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
812 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
814 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
815 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
816 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
817 the not too-distant future).
818 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
819 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
820 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
821 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
822 thus made the build fail.
824 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
826 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Non-maintainer upload.
829 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
831 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
833 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
836 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
837 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
838 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
839 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
840 package. Closes: #301424
841 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
842 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
843 fonts). Closes: #372686
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
847 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
853 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
854 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
855 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
856 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
857 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
858 above, but already depends on that.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
862 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
864 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
865 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
866 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
867 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
868 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
869 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
873 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
875 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
879 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
885 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
886 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
890 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
893 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
897 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
901 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
902 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
903 new version (0.24.1).
904 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
905 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
908 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
909 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
910 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
911 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
912 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
913 new directory on their own.
914 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
915 * Fix broken directory removal code.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
919 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
922 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
923 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
924 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
925 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
929 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
932 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
933 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
934 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
935 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
936 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
940 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
946 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Typo. Closes: #358904
950 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
951 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
955 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
956 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
960 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
962 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
963 || exit 0 instead of the intended
965 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
966 ignored. Closes: #337664
968 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
973 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
979 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
984 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
985 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
986 the dh_installdebconf manpage
987 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
988 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
989 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
990 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
994 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
996 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
997 version. Closes: #350607
998 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
999 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1000 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1001 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1005 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1008 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1009 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1010 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1014 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1021 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1027 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1030 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1034 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1037 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1038 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1039 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1040 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1041 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1042 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1046 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1049 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1050 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1055 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1058 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1062 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1065 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1069 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1072 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1073 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1074 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1075 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1076 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1077 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1081 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1085 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1086 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1087 link. Closes: #346405
1088 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1090 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1091 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1092 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1093 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1094 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1095 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1096 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1100 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1107 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1113 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1116 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1120 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1123 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1128 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1132 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1133 installed. Closes: #342033
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1137 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1140 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1141 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1142 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1147 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1153 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1159 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1163 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1164 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1165 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1169 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1172 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1177 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1184 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1190 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1193 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1194 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1195 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1196 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1197 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1198 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1199 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1201 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1205 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1208 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1209 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1213 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1216 in standard man dirs.
1217 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1221 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1227 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1230 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1235 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1242 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1249 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1252 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1253 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1257 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1260 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1261 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1262 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1264 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1266 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1272 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1278 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1281 mode. Closes: #324161
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1285 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1288 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1289 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1290 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1291 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1296 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1299 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1300 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1301 is necesary for sanity.
1302 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1303 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1308 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1310 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1311 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1315 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1318 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1322 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1328 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1331 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1332 released, so use at your own risk.
1333 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1334 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1336 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1337 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1338 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1339 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1340 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1341 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1342 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1343 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1344 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1345 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1346 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1347 including twice per config file line now..
1348 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1349 and simplfy the rules file.
1350 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1351 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1352 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1354 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1355 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1359 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1362 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1366 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1369 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1373 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1376 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1380 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1383 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1384 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1385 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1386 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1387 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1388 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1392 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1395 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1396 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1397 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1402 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1405 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1406 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1411 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1414 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1415 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1416 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1421 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1424 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1425 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1426 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1430 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1436 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1443 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1446 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1447 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1448 unknown. Closes: #282924
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1452 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1459 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Spanish man page updates.
1462 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1467 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1473 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1476 * dh_desktop: reindent
1477 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1478 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1482 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1488 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1490 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1494 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1496 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1500 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1503 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1504 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1508 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1514 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1520 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1527 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1530 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1534 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1537 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1538 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1539 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1540 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1541 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1542 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1544 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1545 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1546 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1547 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1548 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1549 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1550 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1551 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1552 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1553 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1554 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1555 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1556 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1557 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1558 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1559 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1563 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1570 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1573 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1577 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1580 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1584 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1587 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1591 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1594 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1598 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1604 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1610 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1616 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1619 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1620 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1621 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1625 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1628 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1632 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1635 but occasionally right and necessary.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1639 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1642 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1643 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1644 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1645 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1646 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1650 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1653 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1655 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1656 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1657 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1658 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1659 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1660 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1661 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1662 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1663 postinst scripts for udebs.
1664 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1668 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1671 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1673 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1674 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1678 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1684 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1691 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1698 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1701 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1705 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1708 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1712 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1715 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1718 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1719 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1723 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1729 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1732 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1736 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1739 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1740 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1741 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1743 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1745 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1746 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1747 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1751 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1754 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1759 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1762 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1763 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1764 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1769 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1775 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1781 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1784 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1785 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1786 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1787 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1788 associated -dbg packages.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1792 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1795 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1799 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1802 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1806 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1809 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1813 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1816 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1821 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1824 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1828 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1831 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1836 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1839 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1847 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1848 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1849 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1850 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1851 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1852 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1853 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1854 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1855 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1856 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1860 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1863 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1868 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1871 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1872 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1876 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1879 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1880 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1885 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1888 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1895 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1899 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1902 out section number. Closes: #204731
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1906 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1913 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1919 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1925 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1928 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1929 removal. Closes: #204286
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1936 renaming. Closes: #203548
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1940 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1943 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1944 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1948 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1960 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1966 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1969 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1970 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1971 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1975 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1978 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1979 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1983 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1989 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1999 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2004 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2007 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2011 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2014 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2016 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2017 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2024 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2029 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2032 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2036 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2042 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2044 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2048 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2051 it break hard links (see #188663).
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2055 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2058 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2062 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2068 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2072 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2073 debconf-mergetemplates
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2077 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2080 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2084 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2087 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2091 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2094 * Update debhelper(1).
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2098 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2101 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2102 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2103 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2104 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2105 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2109 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2112 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2113 the shell. Closes: #178524
2114 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2118 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2121 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2125 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2128 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2132 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2135 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2136 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2137 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2138 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2143 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2146 files from installation.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2150 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2153 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2154 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2158 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2161 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2165 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2168 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2172 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2178 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2184 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2188 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2189 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2191 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2195 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2198 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2199 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2200 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2201 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2205 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2208 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2212 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2215 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2216 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2220 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2224 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2229 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2235 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2239 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2240 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2241 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2246 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2249 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2250 practice. Closes: #163303
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2254 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2267 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2270 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2272 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2273 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2274 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2275 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2276 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2280 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2283 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2288 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2294 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2304 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2309 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2315 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2321 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2327 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2337 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2338 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2339 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2340 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2345 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2358 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2361 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2362 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2369 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2370 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2371 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2372 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2373 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2377 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2380 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2382 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2390 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2394 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2397 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2398 right thing. Closes: #150644
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2402 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Stupid, evil typo.
2405 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2409 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2416 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2419 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2420 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2425 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2434 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2438 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2441 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2442 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2447 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2450 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2454 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2460 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2463 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2464 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2468 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2474 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Removing perl warning message.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2480 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2483 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2484 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2485 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2486 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2487 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2488 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2489 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2490 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2494 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2500 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2507 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2510 debconf-mergetemplate.
2511 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2512 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2516 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2519 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2520 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2521 dh_install, which ...
2522 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2523 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2524 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2525 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2526 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2527 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2528 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2529 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2530 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2531 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2532 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2533 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2534 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2535 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2536 other minor changes.
2537 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2538 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2539 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2540 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2541 course there's -X ..)
2542 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2543 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2544 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2546 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2547 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2548 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2549 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2550 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2555 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2561 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2564 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2568 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2574 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2580 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2586 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2592 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2595 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2596 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2597 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2598 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2600 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2601 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2605 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2611 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2614 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2618 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2621 upset. Closes: #131322
2623 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2625 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2628 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2629 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2630 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2631 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2632 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2633 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2634 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2635 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2636 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2637 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2638 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2639 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2640 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2641 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2642 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2644 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2648 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2651 - Better indenting of generated code.
2652 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2656 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2660 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2661 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2662 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2663 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2664 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2665 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2666 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2670 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2673 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2677 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2680 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2681 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2682 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2683 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2684 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2685 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2686 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2687 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2688 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2689 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2690 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2691 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2692 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2693 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2694 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2699 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2705 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2708 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2709 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2713 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2716 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2717 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2721 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2727 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2730 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2731 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2732 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2733 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2734 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2739 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2745 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2748 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2752 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2755 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2760 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2766 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2769 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2773 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2779 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2783 Also some indentation fixes.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2787 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2790 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2791 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2792 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2793 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2794 Closes: #106514, #85520
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2798 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2804 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2810 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2816 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2822 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2828 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2831 change it in debhelper v4..
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2835 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2841 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2844 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2848 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2851 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2855 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2861 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2864 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2865 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2866 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2867 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2868 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2869 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2870 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2871 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2872 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2873 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2874 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2875 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2879 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2882 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2886 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2893 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2896 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2897 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2898 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2899 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2900 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2901 program those options go to. So, for example,
2902 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2903 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2904 something complex. Closes: #89311
2905 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2909 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2912 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2913 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2914 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2918 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2921 through loop. Closes: #98598
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2925 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Missing semi-colon.
2928 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2929 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2933 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2936 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2937 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2938 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2942 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2945 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2946 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2950 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2953 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2957 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2960 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2961 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2965 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2968 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2969 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2970 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2974 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2977 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2978 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2979 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2983 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2986 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2990 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2996 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3002 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3008 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3014 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3017 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3021 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3024 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3025 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3026 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3027 followed. Closes: #85483
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3031 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3033 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3034 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3035 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3039 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3042 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3043 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3044 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3045 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3046 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3047 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3048 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3049 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3050 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3051 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3052 Closes: #88464, #77743
3053 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3054 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3055 us to deal with that gracefully.
3056 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3058 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3059 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3060 a while, Closes: #51225
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3064 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3070 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3073 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3077 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3081 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3086 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3089 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3090 don't make packlist files.
3091 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3092 debhelper coding standards.
3093 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3094 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3098 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3101 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3105 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3108 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3109 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3110 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3111 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3112 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3113 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3114 but is mildly deprecated.
3115 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3116 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3117 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3118 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3119 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3120 switching to statoverrides..
3121 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3122 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3123 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3124 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3125 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3126 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3128 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3129 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3130 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3131 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3132 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3133 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3134 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3135 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3136 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3138 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3139 variable names, pod man pages).
3140 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3141 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3142 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3143 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3144 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3145 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3146 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3150 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3156 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3163 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3166 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3170 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3172 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3173 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3174 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3178 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3180 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3181 they were previously ignored.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3185 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3187 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3188 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3192 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3194 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3195 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3196 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3200 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3202 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3206 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3208 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3209 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3213 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3215 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3216 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3217 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3218 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3219 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3220 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3221 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3222 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3223 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3224 it is an obsolete program.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3228 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3230 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3234 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3238 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3240 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3244 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3246 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3248 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3250 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3254 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3260 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * typo: Closes, #78567
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3266 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3272 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3278 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3281 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3282 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3283 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3284 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3285 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3289 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3292 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3297 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3300 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3301 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3302 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3303 backwards-compatability.
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3307 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3310 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3311 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3312 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3313 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3314 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3315 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3317 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3318 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3319 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3321 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3323 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3324 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3325 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3326 should now be raised to severity important..
3327 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3328 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3332 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3335 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3340 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3346 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3352 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3358 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3365 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3368 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3369 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3370 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3371 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3375 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3381 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3384 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3385 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3386 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3387 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3388 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3389 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3394 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3397 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3401 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3407 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3410 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3415 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3418 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3419 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3420 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3421 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3425 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3429 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3432 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3435 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3436 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3439 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3441 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3442 the TODO entry about it.
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3446 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3453 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3456 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3457 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3461 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3464 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3465 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3466 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3467 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3471 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3477 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3484 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3487 (this appears to be logal).
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3491 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3494 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3495 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3496 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3497 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3501 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3507 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3510 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3511 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3512 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3513 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3517 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3523 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3526 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3530 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3537 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3540 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3541 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3542 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3547 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3554 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3560 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3563 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3564 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3565 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3566 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3567 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3568 notice until v2 is complete.
3569 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3570 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3571 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3572 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3573 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3574 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3576 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3577 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3578 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3579 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3583 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3589 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3596 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3599 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3603 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3610 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3613 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3614 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3615 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3616 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3621 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3624 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3625 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3626 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3631 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3634 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3635 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3639 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3642 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3646 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3649 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3653 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3660 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3663 depend on the build and install targets.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3667 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3670 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3674 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3681 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3687 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3693 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3696 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3697 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3698 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3699 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3700 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3701 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3703 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3704 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3705 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3706 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3707 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3708 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3709 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3713 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3719 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3725 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3728 right place. Closes: #55065
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3732 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3739 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3742 * Copyright date updates.
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3746 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3749 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3754 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3760 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3767 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3773 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3779 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3785 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3788 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3789 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3790 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3791 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3792 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3793 bits until all files have been registered.
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3797 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * dh_installmanpages:
3800 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3801 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3802 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3803 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3804 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3805 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3806 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3807 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3808 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3809 otherwise change the result at all.
3811 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3812 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3813 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3814 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3815 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3820 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3826 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3829 act on files that don't exist.
3830 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3831 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3832 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3834 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3835 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3836 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3837 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3841 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3847 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3853 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3856 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3860 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3863 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3865 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3866 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3867 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3871 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3874 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3875 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3876 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3877 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3878 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3879 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3880 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3882 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3884 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3888 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3895 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3901 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3907 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3910 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3914 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3920 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3926 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3929 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3930 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3931 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3932 I made some changes, though:
3933 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3934 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3935 that is a clear violation of policy.
3936 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3937 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3938 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3939 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3940 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3941 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3942 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3943 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3944 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3946 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3950 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3956 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3959 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3963 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3966 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3967 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3972 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3978 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3985 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3988 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3989 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3990 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3991 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3992 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3993 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3994 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4004 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4008 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4009 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4013 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4019 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4022 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4026 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4029 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4030 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4034 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4036 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4041 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4045 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4049 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4052 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4053 for the dependancies to be generated.
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4057 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4060 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4064 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4067 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4068 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4069 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4074 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4077 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4078 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4082 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4088 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4097 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4101 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4107 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4110 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4111 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4112 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4113 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4114 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4115 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4116 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4117 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4118 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4119 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4120 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4121 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4125 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4128 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4129 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4131 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4132 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4133 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4134 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4135 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4136 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4138 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4139 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4143 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4146 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4157 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4160 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4165 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4168 for building debhelper.
4169 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4180 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4183 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4190 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4191 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4192 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4193 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4194 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4195 it's always available.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4199 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4202 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4203 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4204 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4208 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4211 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4212 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4216 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4222 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4225 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4235 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4238 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4239 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4240 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4244 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4247 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4252 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4254 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4255 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4256 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4258 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4259 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4263 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4275 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4278 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4282 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4285 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4286 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4288 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4292 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4295 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4296 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4297 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4304 things if CDPATH is set.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4308 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4314 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4317 seems to make sense for the transition.
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4321 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4324 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4329 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4332 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4333 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4340 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4344 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4347 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4348 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4349 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4350 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4360 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4363 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4364 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4365 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4366 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4367 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4368 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4369 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4370 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4371 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4372 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4377 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4380 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4381 * README: mention doc/v2
4382 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4383 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4387 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4389 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4390 be using this script RSN.
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4394 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4397 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4398 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4399 more than 1 init script.
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4403 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4406 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4410 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * Changed perl version detection.
4413 * Changed call to find.
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4417 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4420 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4422 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4427 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * Really include dh_installpam.
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4433 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4436 * Wrote man page for same.
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4440 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4443 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4444 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4449 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4456 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4459 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4460 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4461 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4462 x bit was being set!
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4466 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4469 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4470 well. (Closes: 38900)
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4474 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4477 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4478 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4482 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4488 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4495 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4501 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4504 help from Julian Gilbey.
4505 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4506 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4507 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4508 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4509 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4510 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4511 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4516 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4522 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4529 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4535 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4541 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4544 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4548 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4551 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4555 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4558 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4562 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4568 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4571 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4575 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4581 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4587 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4590 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4591 may be deleted. (#35845)
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4595 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * Various man page enhancements.
4598 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4603 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4606 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4607 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4611 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4614 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4615 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4616 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4618 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4619 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4624 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4630 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * Another very minor typo fix.
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4636 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * Very minor typo fix.
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4642 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4645 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4646 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4650 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4656 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4659 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4660 variables properly (#34850).
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4664 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4670 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4673 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4674 (automatically generated by build process).
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4678 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4680 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4684 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4687 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4688 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4690 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4694 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4697 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4701 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * README: minor typo fix.
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4707 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4710 leave it at that. :-)
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4714 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4720 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4726 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4729 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4730 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4731 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4735 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4738 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4742 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4745 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4749 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4752 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4753 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4754 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4755 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4759 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4762 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4763 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4764 Craig Small for spotting this.
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4768 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4771 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4772 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4776 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4782 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4784 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4785 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4789 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4791 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4792 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4793 working on the last version of debhelper.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4797 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4800 being made. (#23255)
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4804 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4810 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4813 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4817 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4820 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4821 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4822 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4823 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4827 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4829 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4830 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4831 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4832 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4833 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4835 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4836 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4838 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4843 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4849 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4855 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4858 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4859 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4860 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4861 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4862 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4863 suidregister actually supports it.
4864 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4865 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4869 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4876 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4879 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4880 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4881 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4882 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4883 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4884 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4885 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4889 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4891 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4892 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4896 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4899 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4900 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4901 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4902 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4906 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4909 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4911 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4912 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4913 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4914 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4915 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4916 effect, either. (#30118)
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4920 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4926 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4929 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4930 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4934 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4940 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4943 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4944 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4945 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4946 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4950 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4953 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4954 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4958 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4964 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4967 packages, painlessly.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4971 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4977 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4983 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4989 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * The perl conversion is complete.
4993 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4995 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4996 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4997 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5002 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5005 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5006 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5007 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5011 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5014 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5016 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5018 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5019 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5023 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5026 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5027 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5031 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5037 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5040 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5041 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5042 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5043 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5044 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5048 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5051 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5052 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5053 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5054 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5058 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5061 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5065 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5068 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5069 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5070 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5071 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5072 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5073 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5074 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5075 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5079 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5085 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5088 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5089 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5090 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5095 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5098 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5102 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5105 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5109 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5112 sections of shared libraries.
5113 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5114 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5115 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5116 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5117 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5118 things you don't want them to.
5119 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5120 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5124 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5127 shared libraries. (#26414)
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5131 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5133 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5134 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5135 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5136 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5140 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5144 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5146 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5147 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5148 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5149 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5150 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5154 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5157 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5161 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5164 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5165 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5170 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5173 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5177 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5180 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5181 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5182 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5183 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5184 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5186 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5187 remove debian/files properly.
5188 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5189 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5190 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5191 * Removed bogus menu file.
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5195 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5198 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5202 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5205 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5206 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5207 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5208 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5209 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5210 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5214 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5217 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5218 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5219 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5220 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5224 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5231 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5234 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5235 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5237 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5238 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5239 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5240 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5241 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5242 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5246 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5249 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5250 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5251 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5252 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5253 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5254 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5255 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5256 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5257 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5258 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5259 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5260 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5261 passed any switches.
5262 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5266 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5269 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5270 at all for a long while.
5271 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5272 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5273 large chunks in the process.
5274 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5275 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5276 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5281 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5284 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5286 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5291 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5294 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5295 that don't always have the same files in them.
5296 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5297 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5298 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5302 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5306 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5307 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5308 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5309 updating 27 man pages.
5310 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5311 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5312 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5313 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5314 programs act on. (#25247)
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5318 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5322 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5323 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5324 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5325 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5326 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5327 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5332 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5339 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5346 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5349 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5353 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5359 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5362 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5363 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5364 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5365 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5366 package by accident.
5367 * Is version 1.0 next?
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5371 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5374 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5375 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5379 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5382 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5383 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5384 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5385 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5386 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5388 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5393 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5395 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5396 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5397 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5401 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5404 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5408 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5411 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5412 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5417 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5419 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5423 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5426 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5427 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5432 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5434 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5438 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5441 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5442 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5443 past week. Thanks, guys!
5445 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5446 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5447 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5448 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5449 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5450 would do in the same situation.
5451 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5452 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5454 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5456 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5457 permissions changed.
5458 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5459 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5460 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5461 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5462 files are treated identically.
5463 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5464 * Minor man page fixes.
5465 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5466 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5467 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5471 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5474 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5475 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5476 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5477 use -X multiple times, too.
5478 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5479 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5483 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5485 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5486 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5487 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5491 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5494 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5498 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5500 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5501 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5502 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5503 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5504 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5505 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5506 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5507 shape if you're starting a new package.
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5511 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5514 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5518 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5520 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5521 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5522 because of missing symlinks.
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5526 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5532 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5535 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5536 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5537 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5538 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5539 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5541 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5542 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5546 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5548 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5549 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5550 to be changed after the fact :-)
5551 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5555 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5557 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5558 no version string after the -V.
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5562 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5564 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5565 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5570 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5573 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5577 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5580 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5581 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5582 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5583 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5584 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5585 I always welcome corrections!
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5589 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5595 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5597 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5598 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5599 * Documented this new switch.
5601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5603 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5605 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5606 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5607 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5608 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5609 no packages use the old behavior.
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5613 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5615 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5616 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5617 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5621 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5624 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5628 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5634 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5637 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5641 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5644 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5645 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5646 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5650 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5656 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5659 into the source package by accident.
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5663 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5666 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5667 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5668 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5669 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5670 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5671 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5676 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5680 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5681 inspired to implement some of it.
5682 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5686 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5689 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5693 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5696 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5697 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5701 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5704 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5705 have done.) (#17598)
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5709 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5715 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5717 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5721 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5724 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5728 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5731 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5732 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5736 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5739 argument processor in perl.
5740 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5741 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5742 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5743 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5747 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5749 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5750 type directories. (#16933)
5751 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5752 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5753 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5754 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5755 are supported. (#16935)
5756 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5761 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5764 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5768 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5772 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5773 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5774 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5775 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5776 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5777 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5781 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5784 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5785 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5787 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5788 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5789 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5790 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5791 a given package, or -i or -a.
5792 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5793 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5794 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5795 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5796 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5797 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5798 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5799 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5800 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5802 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5803 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5804 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5808 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5810 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5811 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5812 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5817 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5820 does not have a section.
5822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5824 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5827 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5828 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5829 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5833 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * Fixed typo #16215.
5837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5839 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5841 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5842 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5843 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5844 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5845 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5846 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5851 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5854 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5855 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5856 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5861 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5867 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5873 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5876 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5877 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5878 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5879 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5880 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5881 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5885 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5891 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5893 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5894 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5898 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5901 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5902 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5903 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5907 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5909 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5910 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5914 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5920 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5923 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5927 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5930 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5934 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5936 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5940 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5943 postinst, postrm, etc.
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5947 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5953 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5956 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5957 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5958 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5959 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5960 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5964 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5967 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5968 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5972 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5975 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5979 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5982 installing package files into.
5983 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5988 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5992 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5996 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5998 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6002 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6005 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6009 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6012 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6013 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6014 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6015 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6019 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6021 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6022 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6023 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6024 multiple binary packages.
6025 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6026 should rebuild them with this version.
6027 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6031 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6034 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6038 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6040 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6041 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6045 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6048 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6049 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6050 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6051 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6052 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6053 debian/README.debian.
6054 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6055 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6056 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6057 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6058 in a few situations.)
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6062 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6064 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6068 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6074 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6076 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6077 * Fixed several man pages.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6081 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6084 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6085 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6089 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6091 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6092 is ready for general use.
6093 * Added man pages for all commands.
6094 * Multiple binary package support.
6095 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6096 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6097 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6099 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6100 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6101 auto-installed as parameters.
6102 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6104 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6107 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6108 the package build directory it is to act on.
6109 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6110 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6111 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6115 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6117 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6118 ready to replace debstd.
6120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400