1 debhelper (7.2.8) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_desktop: Avoid using find -execdir as it will fail
4 with certian badly configured PATHs (and is not a benefit
5 in this context anyway). Closes: #521960
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:07:13 -0400
9 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
12 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
13 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
15 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
16 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
17 by triggers). Closes: #521181
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
21 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
25 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
29 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
32 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
33 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
34 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
35 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
40 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
46 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
49 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
50 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
51 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
52 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
53 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
55 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
56 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
57 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
58 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
59 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
60 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
64 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
67 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
68 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
69 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
70 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
71 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
73 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
77 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
79 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
83 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
85 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
86 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
87 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
88 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
89 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
90 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
91 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
92 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
93 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
94 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
95 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
99 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
101 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
102 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
104 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
105 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
106 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
107 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
109 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
110 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
114 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
116 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
117 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
118 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
119 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
120 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
121 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
122 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
124 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
125 that uses them. Affected options are:
126 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
127 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
128 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
129 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
130 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
131 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
132 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
133 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
134 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
135 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
136 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
137 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
141 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
143 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
148 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
154 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
156 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
157 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
159 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
160 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
161 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
162 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
163 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
165 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
167 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
168 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
169 rules (see bug #509756).
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
173 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
179 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
180 * Typo. Closes: #493062
181 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
182 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
186 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
189 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
190 empty files. Closes: #490937
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
194 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
200 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
207 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
210 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
211 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
212 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
213 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
218 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
220 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
221 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
222 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
223 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
227 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
229 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
230 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
231 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
232 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
233 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
234 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
238 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
245 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
247 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
248 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
249 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
250 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
251 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
252 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
253 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
254 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
255 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
256 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
260 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
263 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
264 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
265 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
266 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
268 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
269 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
270 breaking backwards compatability.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
274 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
276 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
277 message in perl 5.10.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
281 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
287 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Convert copyright file to new format.
290 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
294 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
297 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
301 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
304 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
305 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
306 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
307 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
308 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
309 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
310 logging by dh_listpackages.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
314 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
317 run and there are no packages of that type.
318 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
319 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
320 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
321 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
323 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
324 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
328 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
330 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
331 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
332 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
336 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
339 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
340 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
342 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
343 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
344 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
345 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
346 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
347 planned but not yet implemented.)
348 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
349 if the Makefile has such a target.
350 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
351 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
352 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
353 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
354 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
355 but not yet implemented.)
356 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
357 recommended default, especially when using dh.
358 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
359 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
360 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
362 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
364 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
365 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
367 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
368 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
369 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
374 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
377 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
378 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
382 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
384 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
385 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
386 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
390 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
396 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
402 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
405 just those installed by the program.
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
409 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
412 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
413 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
417 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
420 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
421 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
422 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
423 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
427 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
430 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
431 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
435 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
438 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
439 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
443 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
446 with policy. Closes: #461392
447 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
448 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
449 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
450 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
451 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
455 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
457 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
458 Closes: #460340, #460351
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
462 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
465 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
466 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
467 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
468 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
472 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
475 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
476 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
477 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
478 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
479 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
480 package build directory won't work.
481 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
482 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
483 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
484 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
485 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
486 mode. Closes: #459426
487 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
492 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
495 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
499 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
503 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
504 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
505 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
506 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
507 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
508 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
512 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
515 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
516 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
517 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
518 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
522 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
525 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
526 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
527 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
528 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
529 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
533 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
536 debian/package.triggers files.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
540 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
543 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
547 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
550 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
551 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
552 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
553 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
558 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
561 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
565 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
568 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
569 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
571 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
576 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
580 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
581 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
582 * Typo. Closes: #441272
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
586 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
588 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
593 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
600 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
603 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
605 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
606 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
607 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
609 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
610 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
611 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
615 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
618 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
619 * Update urls to web page.
620 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
622 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
623 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
627 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
630 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
631 - typo in alternatives call
632 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
634 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
635 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
639 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
642 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
647 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
653 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
655 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
659 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
661 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
662 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
664 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
665 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
666 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
667 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
668 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
669 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
670 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
671 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
672 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
673 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
674 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
678 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
680 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
681 package install. Closes: #415717
682 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
683 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
684 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
685 script and then remove the python files.
686 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
687 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
688 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
689 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
690 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
691 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
692 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
693 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
694 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
695 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
696 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
697 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
698 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
702 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Correct typo in french translation
708 * Typo. Closes: #400571
709 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
711 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
713 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
714 Closes: #406921, #381940
715 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
717 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
718 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
719 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
720 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
721 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
722 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
723 specified). Closes: #381851
724 * Misc minor changes.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
728 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
735 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
736 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
740 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
746 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
747 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
750 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
751 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
753 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
754 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
755 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
756 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
760 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
763 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
766 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
770 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
776 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
782 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
783 a difficult situation.
784 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
785 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
786 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
787 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
788 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
789 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
790 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
791 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
792 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
793 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
797 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Non-maintainer upload.
800 * Update of dh_python
801 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
802 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
804 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
805 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
806 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
807 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
808 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
810 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
812 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
814 * Non-maintainer upload.
815 * Update of dh_python
816 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
817 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
818 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
819 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
820 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
821 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
822 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
823 specific python version. Closes: #373853
824 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
825 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
827 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
828 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
829 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
830 the not too-distant future).
831 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
832 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
833 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
834 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
835 thus made the build fail.
837 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
839 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Non-maintainer upload.
842 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
844 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
846 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
849 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
850 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
851 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
852 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
853 package. Closes: #301424
854 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
855 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
856 fonts). Closes: #372686
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
860 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
866 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
867 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
868 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
869 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
870 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
871 above, but already depends on that.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
875 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
878 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
879 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
880 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
881 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
882 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
886 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
892 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
898 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
899 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
903 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
906 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
910 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
914 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
915 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
916 new version (0.24.1).
917 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
918 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
921 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
922 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
923 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
924 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
925 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
926 new directory on their own.
927 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
928 * Fix broken directory removal code.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
932 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
934 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
935 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
936 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
937 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
938 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
942 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
945 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
946 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
947 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
948 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
949 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
953 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
959 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Typo. Closes: #358904
963 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
964 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
968 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
969 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
973 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
975 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
976 || exit 0 instead of the intended
978 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
979 ignored. Closes: #337664
981 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
986 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
992 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
997 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
998 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
999 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1000 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1001 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1002 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1003 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1007 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1010 version. Closes: #350607
1011 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1012 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1013 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1014 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1018 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1021 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1022 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1023 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1027 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1034 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1040 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1043 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1047 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1050 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1051 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1052 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1053 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1054 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1055 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1059 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1062 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1063 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1068 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1071 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1075 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1078 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1082 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1085 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1086 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1087 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1088 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1089 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1090 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1094 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1098 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1099 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1100 link. Closes: #346405
1101 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1103 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1104 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1105 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1106 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1107 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1108 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1109 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1113 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1120 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1126 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1129 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1133 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1136 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1141 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1145 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1146 installed. Closes: #342033
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1150 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1153 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1154 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1155 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1160 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1166 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1172 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1176 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1177 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1178 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1182 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1185 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1190 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1197 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1203 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1206 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1207 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1208 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1209 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1210 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1211 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1212 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1214 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1218 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1221 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1222 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1226 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1229 in standard man dirs.
1230 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1234 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1240 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1243 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1248 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1255 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1262 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1265 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1266 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1270 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1273 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1274 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1275 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1277 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1279 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1285 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1291 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1294 mode. Closes: #324161
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1298 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1301 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1302 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1303 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1304 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1309 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1312 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1313 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1314 is necesary for sanity.
1315 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1316 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1321 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1323 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1324 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1328 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1331 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1335 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1341 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1344 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1345 released, so use at your own risk.
1346 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1347 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1349 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1350 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1351 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1352 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1353 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1354 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1355 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1356 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1357 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1358 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1359 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1360 including twice per config file line now..
1361 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1362 and simplfy the rules file.
1363 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1364 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1365 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1367 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1368 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1372 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1375 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1379 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1382 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1386 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1389 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1393 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1396 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1397 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1398 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1399 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1400 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1401 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1405 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1408 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1409 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1410 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1415 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1418 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1419 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1424 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1427 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1428 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1429 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1434 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1437 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1438 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1439 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1443 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1449 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1456 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1459 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1460 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1461 unknown. Closes: #282924
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1465 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1472 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Spanish man page updates.
1475 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1480 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1486 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1489 * dh_desktop: reindent
1490 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1491 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1495 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1501 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1503 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1507 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1509 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1513 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1516 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1517 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1521 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1527 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1533 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1540 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1543 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1547 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1550 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1551 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1552 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1553 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1554 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1555 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1557 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1558 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1559 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1560 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1561 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1562 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1563 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1564 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1565 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1566 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1567 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1568 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1569 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1570 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1571 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1572 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1576 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1583 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1586 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1590 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1593 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1597 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1600 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1604 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1607 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1611 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1617 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1623 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1629 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1632 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1633 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1634 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1638 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1641 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1645 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1648 but occasionally right and necessary.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1652 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1655 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1656 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1657 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1658 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1659 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1663 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1666 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1668 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1669 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1670 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1671 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1672 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1673 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1674 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1675 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1676 postinst scripts for udebs.
1677 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1681 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1684 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1686 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1687 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1691 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1697 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1704 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1711 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1714 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1718 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1721 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1725 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1728 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1731 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1732 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1736 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1742 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1745 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1749 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1752 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1753 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1754 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1756 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1758 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1759 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1760 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1764 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1767 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1772 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1775 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1776 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1777 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1782 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1788 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1794 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1797 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1798 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1799 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1800 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1801 associated -dbg packages.
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1805 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1808 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1812 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1815 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1819 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1822 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1826 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1829 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1834 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1837 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1841 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1844 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1849 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1852 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1856 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1860 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1861 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1862 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1863 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1864 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1865 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1866 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1867 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1868 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1869 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1873 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1876 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1881 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1884 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1885 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1889 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1892 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1893 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1898 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1901 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1908 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1912 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1915 out section number. Closes: #204731
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1919 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1926 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1932 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1938 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1941 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1942 removal. Closes: #204286
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1946 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1949 renaming. Closes: #203548
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1956 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1957 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1961 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1973 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1979 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1982 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1983 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1984 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1988 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1991 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1992 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2002 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2009 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2012 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2017 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2020 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2024 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2027 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2029 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2030 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2034 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2037 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2042 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2045 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2049 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2055 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2057 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2061 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2064 it break hard links (see #188663).
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2068 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2071 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2075 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2081 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2085 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2086 debconf-mergetemplates
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2090 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2093 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2097 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2100 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2104 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2107 * Update debhelper(1).
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2111 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2114 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2115 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2116 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2117 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2118 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2122 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2125 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2126 the shell. Closes: #178524
2127 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2131 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2134 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2138 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2141 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2145 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2148 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2149 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2150 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2151 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2156 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2159 files from installation.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2163 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2166 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2167 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2171 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2174 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2178 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2181 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2185 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2191 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2197 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2201 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2202 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2204 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2208 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2211 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2212 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2213 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2214 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2218 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2221 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2225 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2228 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2229 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2233 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2237 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2242 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2248 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2252 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2253 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2254 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2259 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2262 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2263 practice. Closes: #163303
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2267 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2273 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2280 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2283 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2285 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2286 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2287 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2288 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2289 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2293 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2296 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2301 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2307 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2317 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2328 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2340 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2347 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2350 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2351 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2352 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2353 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2358 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2364 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2371 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2374 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2375 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2379 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2382 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2383 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2384 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2385 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2386 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2390 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2393 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2395 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2403 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2407 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2410 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2411 right thing. Closes: #150644
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Stupid, evil typo.
2418 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2429 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2432 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2433 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2438 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2447 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2451 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2454 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2455 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2460 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2463 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2467 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2473 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2476 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2477 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2487 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Removing perl warning message.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2493 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2496 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2497 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2498 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2499 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2500 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2501 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2502 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2503 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2507 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2513 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2520 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2523 debconf-mergetemplate.
2524 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2525 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2529 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2532 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2533 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2534 dh_install, which ...
2535 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2536 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2537 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2538 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2539 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2540 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2541 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2542 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2543 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2544 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2545 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2546 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2547 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2548 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2549 other minor changes.
2550 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2551 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2552 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2553 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2554 course there's -X ..)
2555 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2556 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2557 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2559 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2560 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2561 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2562 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2563 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2568 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2574 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2577 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2581 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2587 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2593 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2599 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2605 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2608 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2609 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2610 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2611 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2613 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2614 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2618 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2624 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2627 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2631 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2634 upset. Closes: #131322
2636 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2638 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2641 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2642 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2643 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2644 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2645 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2646 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2647 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2648 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2649 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2650 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2651 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2652 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2653 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2654 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2655 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2657 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2661 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2664 - Better indenting of generated code.
2665 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2669 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2673 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2674 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2675 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2676 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2677 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2678 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2679 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2683 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2686 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2690 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2693 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2694 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2695 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2696 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2697 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2698 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2699 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2700 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2701 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2702 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2703 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2704 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2705 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2706 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2707 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2712 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2718 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2721 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2722 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2726 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2729 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2730 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2734 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2740 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2743 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2744 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2745 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2746 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2747 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2752 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2758 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2761 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2765 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2768 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2773 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2779 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2782 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2786 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2792 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2796 Also some indentation fixes.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2800 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2803 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2804 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2805 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2806 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2807 Closes: #106514, #85520
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2811 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2817 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2823 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2829 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2835 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2841 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2844 change it in debhelper v4..
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2848 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2854 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2857 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2861 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2864 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2868 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2874 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2877 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2878 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2879 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2880 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2881 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2882 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2883 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2884 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2885 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2886 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2887 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2888 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2892 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2895 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2899 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2906 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2909 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2910 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2911 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2912 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2913 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2914 program those options go to. So, for example,
2915 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2916 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2917 something complex. Closes: #89311
2918 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2922 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2925 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2926 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2927 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2931 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2934 through loop. Closes: #98598
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2938 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Missing semi-colon.
2941 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2942 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2946 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2949 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2950 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2951 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2955 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2958 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2959 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2963 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2966 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2970 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2973 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2974 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2978 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2981 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2982 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2983 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2987 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2990 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2991 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2992 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2996 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2999 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3003 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3009 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3015 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3021 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3027 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3030 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3034 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3037 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3038 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3039 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3040 followed. Closes: #85483
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3044 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3046 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3047 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3048 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3052 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3055 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3056 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3057 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3058 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3059 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3060 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3061 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3062 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3063 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3064 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3065 Closes: #88464, #77743
3066 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3067 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3068 us to deal with that gracefully.
3069 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3071 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3072 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3073 a while, Closes: #51225
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3077 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3083 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3086 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3090 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3094 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3099 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3102 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3103 don't make packlist files.
3104 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3105 debhelper coding standards.
3106 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3107 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3111 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3114 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3118 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3121 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3122 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3123 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3124 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3125 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3126 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3127 but is mildly deprecated.
3128 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3129 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3130 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3131 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3132 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3133 switching to statoverrides..
3134 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3135 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3136 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3137 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3138 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3139 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3141 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3142 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3143 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3144 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3145 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3146 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3147 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3148 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3149 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3151 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3152 variable names, pod man pages).
3153 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3154 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3155 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3156 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3157 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3158 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3159 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3163 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3169 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3176 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3179 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3183 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3185 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3186 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3187 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3191 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3193 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3194 they were previously ignored.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3198 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3200 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3201 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3205 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3207 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3208 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3209 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3213 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3215 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3219 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3221 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3222 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3226 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3228 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3229 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3230 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3231 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3232 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3233 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3234 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3235 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3236 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3237 it is an obsolete program.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3241 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3243 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3247 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3251 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3253 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3257 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3259 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3261 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3263 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3267 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3273 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * typo: Closes, #78567
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3279 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3285 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3291 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3294 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3295 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3296 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3297 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3298 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3302 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3305 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3310 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3313 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3314 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3315 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3316 backwards-compatability.
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3320 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3323 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3324 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3325 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3326 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3327 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3328 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3330 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3331 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3332 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3334 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3336 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3337 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3338 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3339 should now be raised to severity important..
3340 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3341 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3345 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3348 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3353 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3359 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3365 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3371 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3378 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3381 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3382 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3383 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3384 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3388 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3394 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3397 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3398 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3399 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3400 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3401 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3402 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3407 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3410 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3414 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3420 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3423 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3428 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3431 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3432 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3433 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3434 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3438 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3442 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3445 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3448 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3449 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3452 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3454 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3455 the TODO entry about it.
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3459 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3466 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3469 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3470 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3474 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3477 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3478 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3479 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3480 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3484 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3490 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3497 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3500 (this appears to be logal).
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3504 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3507 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3508 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3509 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3510 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3514 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3520 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3523 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3524 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3525 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3526 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3530 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3536 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3539 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3543 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3550 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3553 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3554 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3555 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3560 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3567 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3573 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3576 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3577 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3578 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3579 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3580 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3581 notice until v2 is complete.
3582 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3583 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3584 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3585 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3586 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3587 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3589 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3590 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3591 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3592 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3596 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3602 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3609 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3612 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3616 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3623 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3626 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3627 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3628 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3629 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3634 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3637 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3638 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3639 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3644 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3647 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3648 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3652 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3655 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3659 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3662 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3666 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3673 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3676 depend on the build and install targets.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3680 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3683 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3687 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3694 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3700 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3706 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3709 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3710 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3711 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3712 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3713 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3714 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3716 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3717 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3718 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3719 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3720 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3721 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3722 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3726 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3732 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3738 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3741 right place. Closes: #55065
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3745 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3752 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3755 * Copyright date updates.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3759 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3762 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3767 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3773 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3780 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3786 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3792 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3798 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3801 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3802 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3803 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3804 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3805 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3806 bits until all files have been registered.
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3810 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * dh_installmanpages:
3813 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3814 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3815 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3816 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3817 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3818 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3819 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3820 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3821 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3822 otherwise change the result at all.
3824 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3825 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3826 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3827 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3828 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3833 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3839 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3842 act on files that don't exist.
3843 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3844 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3845 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3847 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3848 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3849 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3850 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3854 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3860 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3866 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3869 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3873 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3876 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3878 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3879 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3880 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3884 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3887 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3888 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3889 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3890 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3891 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3892 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3893 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3895 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3897 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3901 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3908 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3914 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3920 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3923 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3927 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3933 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3939 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3942 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3943 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3944 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3945 I made some changes, though:
3946 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3947 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3948 that is a clear violation of policy.
3949 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3950 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3951 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3952 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3953 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3954 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3955 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3956 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3957 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3959 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3963 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3969 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3972 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3976 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3979 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3980 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3985 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3991 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3998 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4001 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4002 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4003 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4004 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4005 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4006 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4007 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4011 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4017 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4021 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4022 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4026 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4032 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4035 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4039 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4042 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4043 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4047 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4049 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4054 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4058 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4065 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4066 for the dependancies to be generated.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4073 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4077 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4080 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4081 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4082 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4087 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4090 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4091 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4095 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4101 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4107 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4110 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4114 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4120 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4123 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4124 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4125 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4126 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4127 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4128 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4129 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4130 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4131 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4132 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4133 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4134 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4138 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4141 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4142 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4144 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4145 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4146 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4147 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4148 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4149 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4151 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4152 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4156 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4159 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4163 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4170 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4173 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4178 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4181 for building debhelper.
4182 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4186 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4193 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4196 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4200 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4203 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4204 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4205 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4206 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4207 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4208 it's always available.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4215 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4216 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4217 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4221 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4224 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4225 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4235 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4238 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4242 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4251 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4252 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4253 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4257 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4260 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4265 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4267 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4268 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4269 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4271 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4272 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4276 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4282 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4291 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4295 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4298 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4299 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4301 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4305 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4308 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4309 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4310 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4314 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4317 things if CDPATH is set.
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4321 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4327 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4330 seems to make sense for the transition.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4334 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4337 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4342 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4345 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4346 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4350 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4353 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4357 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4360 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4361 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4362 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4363 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4373 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4376 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4377 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4378 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4379 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4380 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4381 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4382 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4383 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4384 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4385 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4390 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4393 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4394 * README: mention doc/v2
4395 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4396 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4400 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4402 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4403 be using this script RSN.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4407 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4410 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4411 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4412 more than 1 init script.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4416 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4419 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4423 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * Changed perl version detection.
4426 * Changed call to find.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4430 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4433 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4435 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4440 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * Really include dh_installpam.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4446 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4449 * Wrote man page for same.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4453 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4456 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4457 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4462 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4469 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4472 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4473 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4474 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4475 x bit was being set!
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4479 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4482 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4483 well. (Closes: 38900)
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4487 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4490 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4491 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4495 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4501 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4508 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4514 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4517 help from Julian Gilbey.
4518 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4519 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4520 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4521 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4522 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4523 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4524 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4529 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4535 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4542 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4548 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4554 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4557 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4561 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4564 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4568 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4571 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4575 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4581 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4584 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4588 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4594 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4600 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4603 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4604 may be deleted. (#35845)
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4608 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * Various man page enhancements.
4611 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4616 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4619 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4620 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4624 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4627 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4628 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4629 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4631 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4632 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4637 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4643 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * Another very minor typo fix.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4649 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * Very minor typo fix.
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4655 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4658 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4659 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4663 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4669 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4672 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4673 variables properly (#34850).
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4677 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4683 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4686 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4687 (automatically generated by build process).
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4691 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4693 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4697 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4700 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4701 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4703 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4707 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4710 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4714 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * README: minor typo fix.
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4720 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4723 leave it at that. :-)
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4727 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4733 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4739 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4742 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4743 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4744 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4748 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4751 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4755 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4758 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4762 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4765 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4766 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4767 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4768 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4772 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4775 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4776 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4777 Craig Small for spotting this.
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4781 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4784 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4785 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4789 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4795 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4798 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4802 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4804 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4805 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4806 working on the last version of debhelper.
4808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4810 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4812 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4813 being made. (#23255)
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4817 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4823 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4826 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4830 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4833 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4834 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4835 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4836 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4840 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4843 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4844 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4845 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4846 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4848 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4849 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4851 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4856 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4862 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4868 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4871 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4872 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4873 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4874 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4875 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4876 suidregister actually supports it.
4877 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4878 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4882 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4889 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4892 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4893 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4894 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4895 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4896 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4897 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4898 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4902 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4904 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4905 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4909 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4912 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4913 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4914 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4915 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4919 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4922 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4924 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4925 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4926 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4927 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4928 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4929 effect, either. (#30118)
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4933 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4939 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4942 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4943 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4947 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4953 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4956 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4957 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4958 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4959 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4963 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4966 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4967 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4971 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4977 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4980 packages, painlessly.
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4984 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4990 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4996 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5002 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * The perl conversion is complete.
5006 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5008 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5009 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5010 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5015 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5018 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5019 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5020 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5024 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5027 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5029 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5031 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5032 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5036 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5039 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5040 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5044 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5050 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5053 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5054 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5055 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5056 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5057 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5061 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5064 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5065 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5066 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5067 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5071 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5074 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5078 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5081 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5082 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5083 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5084 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5085 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5086 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5087 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5088 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5092 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5098 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5101 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5102 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5103 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5108 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5111 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5115 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5118 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5122 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5125 sections of shared libraries.
5126 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5127 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5128 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5129 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5130 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5131 things you don't want them to.
5132 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5133 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5137 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5140 shared libraries. (#26414)
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5144 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5146 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5147 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5148 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5149 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5153 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5155 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5157 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5159 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5160 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5161 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5162 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5163 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5167 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5170 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5174 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5177 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5178 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5183 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5186 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5190 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5193 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5194 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5195 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5196 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5197 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5199 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5200 remove debian/files properly.
5201 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5202 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5203 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5204 * Removed bogus menu file.
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5208 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5211 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5215 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5218 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5219 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5220 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5221 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5222 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5223 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5227 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5230 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5231 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5232 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5233 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5237 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5244 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5247 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5248 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5250 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5251 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5252 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5253 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5254 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5255 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5259 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5262 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5263 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5264 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5265 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5266 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5267 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5268 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5269 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5270 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5271 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5272 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5273 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5274 passed any switches.
5275 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5279 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5282 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5283 at all for a long while.
5284 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5285 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5286 large chunks in the process.
5287 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5288 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5289 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5294 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5297 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5299 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5304 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5307 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5308 that don't always have the same files in them.
5309 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5310 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5311 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5315 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5319 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5320 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5321 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5322 updating 27 man pages.
5323 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5324 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5325 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5326 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5327 programs act on. (#25247)
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5331 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5335 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5336 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5337 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5338 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5339 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5340 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5345 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5352 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5359 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5362 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5366 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5372 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5375 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5376 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5377 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5378 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5379 package by accident.
5380 * Is version 1.0 next?
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5384 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5387 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5388 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5392 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5395 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5396 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5397 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5398 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5399 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5401 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5406 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5409 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5410 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5414 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5417 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5421 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5424 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5425 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5430 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5436 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5439 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5440 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5445 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5451 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5454 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5455 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5456 past week. Thanks, guys!
5458 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5459 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5460 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5461 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5462 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5463 would do in the same situation.
5464 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5465 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5467 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5469 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5470 permissions changed.
5471 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5472 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5473 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5474 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5475 files are treated identically.
5476 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5477 * Minor man page fixes.
5478 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5479 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5480 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5484 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5487 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5488 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5489 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5490 use -X multiple times, too.
5491 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5492 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5496 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5499 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5500 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5504 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5507 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5511 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5514 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5515 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5516 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5517 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5518 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5519 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5520 shape if you're starting a new package.
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5524 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5527 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5531 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5533 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5534 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5535 because of missing symlinks.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5539 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5545 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5548 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5549 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5550 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5551 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5552 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5554 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5555 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5559 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5561 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5562 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5563 to be changed after the fact :-)
5564 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5568 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5570 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5571 no version string after the -V.
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5575 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5577 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5578 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5583 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5586 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5590 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5593 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5594 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5595 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5596 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5597 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5598 I always welcome corrections!
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5602 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5608 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5610 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5611 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5612 * Documented this new switch.
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5616 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5619 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5620 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5621 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5622 no packages use the old behavior.
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5626 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5629 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5630 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5634 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5637 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5641 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5647 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5650 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5654 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5657 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5658 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5659 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5663 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5669 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5672 into the source package by accident.
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5676 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5679 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5680 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5681 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5682 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5683 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5684 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5689 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5693 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5694 inspired to implement some of it.
5695 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5699 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5702 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5706 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5709 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5710 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5714 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5716 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5717 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5718 have done.) (#17598)
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5722 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5728 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5734 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5737 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5741 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5744 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5745 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5749 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5751 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5752 argument processor in perl.
5753 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5754 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5755 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5756 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5760 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5762 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5763 type directories. (#16933)
5764 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5765 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5766 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5767 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5768 are supported. (#16935)
5769 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5774 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5777 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5781 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5785 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5786 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5787 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5788 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5789 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5790 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5794 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5797 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5798 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5800 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5801 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5802 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5803 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5804 a given package, or -i or -a.
5805 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5806 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5807 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5808 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5809 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5810 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5811 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5812 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5813 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5815 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5816 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5817 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5821 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5823 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5824 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5825 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5830 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5833 does not have a section.
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5837 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5840 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5841 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5842 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5846 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5848 * Fixed typo #16215.
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5852 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5855 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5856 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5857 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5858 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5859 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5864 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5867 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5868 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5869 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5874 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5880 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5882 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5886 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5888 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5889 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5890 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5891 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5892 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5893 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5894 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5898 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5904 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5907 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5911 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5914 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5915 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5916 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5920 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5923 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5927 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5933 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5936 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5940 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5943 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5947 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5953 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5955 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5956 postinst, postrm, etc.
5958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5960 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5962 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5966 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5968 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5969 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5970 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5971 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5972 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5973 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5977 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5980 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5981 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5985 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5988 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5992 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5995 installing package files into.
5996 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6001 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6003 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6005 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6009 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6015 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6017 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6018 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6022 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6025 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6026 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6027 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6028 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6032 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6034 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6035 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6036 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6037 multiple binary packages.
6038 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6039 should rebuild them with this version.
6040 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6044 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6046 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6047 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6051 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6054 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6058 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6061 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6062 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6063 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6064 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6065 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6066 debian/README.debian.
6067 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6068 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6069 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6070 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6071 in a few situations.)
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6075 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6081 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6087 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6090 * Fixed several man pages.
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6094 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6097 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6098 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6102 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6105 is ready for general use.
6106 * Added man pages for all commands.
6107 * Multiple binary package support.
6108 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6109 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6110 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6112 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6113 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6114 auto-installed as parameters.
6115 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6117 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6120 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6121 the package build directory it is to act on.
6122 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6123 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6124 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6128 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6130 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6131 ready to replace debstd.
6133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400