1 debhelper (9.20120116) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_auto_install: Set AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no to avoid automake
4 generating an info dir file. Closes: #634741
5 * dh_install: Man page clarification. Closes: #659635
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:46:13 -0400
9 debhelper (9.20120115) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Finalized v9 mode, which is the new recommended default.
12 (But continuing to use v8 is also fine.)
13 * It is now deprecated for a package to not specify a compatibility
14 level in debian/compat. Debhelper now warns if this is not done,
15 and packages without a debian/compat will eventually FTBFS.
16 * dh: --without foo,bar now supported.
17 * Updated German man page translation. Closes: #653360
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:59:49 -0400
21 debhelper (8.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Typo. Closes: #653006
24 * Typo. Closes: #653339
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:53:44 -0400
28 debhelper (8.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Pass CPPFLAGS to qmake. Closes: #646129 Thanks, Felix Geyert
31 * dh_strip: Use build-id in /usr/lib/debug in v9.
32 Closes: #642158 Thanks, Jakub Wilk
33 * Spanish translation update. Closes: #636245 Thanks, Omar Campagne
34 * Only enable executable config files in v9. The quality of file permissions
35 in debian/ directories turns out to be atrocious; who knew?
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:53:38 -0400
39 debhelper (8.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Debhelper config files may be made executable programs that output the
42 desired configuration. No further changes are planned to the config file
43 format; those needing powerful syntaxes may now use a programming language
44 of their choice. (Be careful aiming that at your feet.)
45 Closes: #235302, #372310, #235302, #614731,
46 Closes: #438601, #477625, #632860, #642129
47 * Added German translation of man pages, done by Chris Leick. Closes: #651221
48 * Typo fixes. Closes: #651224 Thanks, Chris Leick
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:09:50 -0400
52 debhelper (8.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Fix broken option passing to objcopy. Closes: #649044
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:15:34 -0400
58 debhelper (8.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_strip: In v9, pass --compress-debug-sections to objcopy.
61 Needs a new enough binutils and gdb; debhelper backport
62 may need to disable this.
63 Thanks, Aurelien Jarno and Bastien ROUCARIES. Closes: #631985
64 * dh: Ensure -a and -i are passed when running override_dh_command-arch
65 and override_dh_command-indep targets. This is needed when the binary
66 target is run, rather than binary-arch/binary-indep. Closes: #648901
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:54:59 -0400
70 debhelper (8.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_auto_build: Use target architecture (not host architecture)
73 for build directory name. Closes: #644553 Thanks, Tom Hughes
74 * dh: Add dh_auto_configure parameter example. Closes: #645335
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:01:58 -0400
78 debhelper (8.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_fixperms: Operate on .ali files throughout /usr/lib, including
81 multiarch dirs. Closes: #641279
82 * dh: Avoid compat deprecation warning before option parsing.
84 * Clarify description of dh_auto_* -- params. Closes: #642786
85 * Mention in debhelper(7) that buildsystem options are typically passed
86 to dh. Closes: #643069
87 * perl_makemaker: In v9, pass CFLAGS to Makefile.PL and Build.Pl
88 Closes: #643702, #497653 Thanks, Steve Langasek, gregor herrmann.
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:41:16 -0400
92 debhelper (8.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh: Now you can use override_dh_command-arch and override_dh_command-indep
95 to run different overrides when building arch and indep packages. This
96 allows for a much simplified form of rules file in this situation, where
97 build-arch/indep and binary-arch/indep targets do not need to be manually
98 specified. See man page for examples. Closes: #640965
100 Note that if a rules file has say, override_dh_fixperms-arch,
101 but no corresponding override_dh_fixperms-indep, then the unoverridden
102 dh_fixperms will be run on the indep packages.
104 Note that the old override_dh_command takes precidence over the new
105 overrides, because mixing the two types of overrides would have been
106 too complicated. In particular, it's difficult to ensure an
107 old override target will work if it's sometimes constrained to only
108 acting on half the packages it would normally run on. This would be
109 a source of subtle bugs, so is avoided.
110 * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshlibs, or dh_strip
111 in the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
112 * dh: Avoid running install sequence a third time in v9 when the
113 rules file has explicit binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
114 Closes: #639341 Thanks, Yann Dirson for test case.
115 * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
116 * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
117 * Avoid writing debhelper log files in no-act mode. Closes: #640586
118 * Tighten parsing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:29:22 -0400
122 debhelper (8.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
124 * dh_installlogcheck: Add support for --name. Closes: #639020
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:25:55 -0400
129 debhelper (8.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_compress: Don't compress _sources documentation subdirectory
132 as used by python-sphinx. Closes: #637492
134 * dh_ucf: fix test for ucf/ucfr availability and quote filenames.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:25:54 -0400
140 debhelper (8.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh: The --before --after --until and --remaining options are deprecated.
143 Use override targets instead.
144 * Assume that the package can be cleaned (i.e. the build directory can be
145 removed) as long as it is built out-of-source tree and can be configured.
146 This is useful for derivative buildsystems which generate Makefiles.
147 (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #601590
148 * dh_auto_test: Run cmake tests in parallel when allowed by
149 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. (Modestas Vainius) Closes: #587885
150 * dpkg-buildflags is only used to set environment in v9, to avoid
151 re-breaking packages that were already broken a first time by
152 dpkg-buildpackage unconditionally setting the environment, and
153 worked around that by unsetting variables in the rules file.
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:58:59 -0400
158 debhelper (8.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh: Remove obsolete optimisation hack that caused sequence breakage
161 in v9 with a rules file with an explict build target. Closes: #634784
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:26:43 -0400
165 debhelper (8.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh: Support make 3.82. Closes: #634385
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:55:24 -0400
171 debhelper (8.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Typo fixes. Closes: #632662
174 * dh: In v9, do not enable any python support commands. Closes: #634106
175 * Now the QT4 version of qmake can be explicitly selected by passing
176 --buildsystem=qmake_qt4. Closes: #566840
177 * Remove debhelper.log in compat level 1. Closes: #634155
178 * dh_builddeb: Build in parallel when allowed by DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
179 Closes: #589427 (Thanks, Gergely Nagy and Kari Pahula)
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:31:27 -0400
183 debhelper (8.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh: In v9, any standard rules file targets, including build-arch,
186 build-indep, build, install, etc, can be defined in debian/rules
187 without needing to explicitly tell make the dependencies between
188 the targets. Closes: #629139
189 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
190 * dh_auto_configure: In v9, does not include the source package name
191 in --libexecdir when using autoconf. Closes: #541458
192 * dh_auto_build, dh_auto_configure, dh: Set environment variables
193 listed by dpkg-buildflags --export. Any environment variables that
194 are already set to other values will not be changed.
196 * dh_movefiles: Optimise use of xargs. Closes: #627737
197 * Correct docs about multiarch and v9. Closes: #630826
198 * Fix example. Closes: #627534
199 * Fix error message. Closes: #628053
200 * dh_auto_configure: If there is a problem with cmake, display
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:28:52 -0400
205 debhelper (8.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_ucf: Fix missing space before ']'s in postrm autoscript.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:33:42 -0400
211 debhelper (8.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_ucf: New command, contributed by Jeroen Schot. Closes: #213078
214 * dh_installgsettings: Correct bug in use of find that caused some
215 gsettings files to be missed. Closes: #624377
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:33:50 -0400
219 debhelper (8.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_clean: Remove debhelper logs for all packages, including packages
222 not being acted on. dh can sometimes produce such logs by accident
223 when passed bundled options (like "-Nfoo" instead of "-N foo") that
224 it does not understand; and it was not possible to fix that
225 for any compat level before v8. But also, such logs can occur
226 for other reasons, like interrupted builds during development,
227 and it should be safe to clean them all. Closes: #623446
228 * Fix Typos in documentation regarding {pre,post}{inst,rm}
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:15:21 -0400
233 debhelper (8.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
236 * dh_auto_clean: Inhibit logging, so that, if dh_auto_clean is used
237 in some rule other than clean, perhaps to clean up an intermediate
238 build before a second build is run, debian/rules clean still runs it.
240 * Started work on Debhelper v9. It is still experimental, and more
241 changes may be added to that mode.
242 * Support multiarch in v9. Thanks, Steve Langasek. Closes: #617761
243 * dh_auto_configure: Support multiarch in v9 by passing multiarch
244 directories to --libdir and --libexecdir.
245 * dh_makeshlibs: Detect packages using multiarch directories and
246 make ${misc:Pre-Depends} expand to multiarch-support.
247 * Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0) for multiarch support. Note to backporters:
248 If you remove that dependency, debhelper will fall back to not doing
249 multiarch stuff in v9 mode, which is probably what you want.
250 * Removed old example rules files.
251 * dh_installgsettings: New command to handle gsettings schema files.
255 * update french translation.
256 * Fix french misspelling.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:09:43 -0400
260 debhelper (8.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Fix logging at end of an override target that never actually runs
263 the overridden command. Closes: #613418
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:22:17 -0400
267 debhelper (8.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_strip, dh_makeshlibs: use triplet-objdump, triplet-objcopy and
270 triplet-strip from cross-binutils when cross-compiling; Closes: #412118.
271 (Thanks, Loïc Minier)
272 * Improve handling of logging in override targets, so that
273 --remaining-packages can be used again. Now all debhelper commands run
274 in the override target are marked as running as part of the override,
275 and when the whole target is run, the log is updated to indicate that
276 commands run during the override have finished. Closes: #612828
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:58:34 -0400
280 debhelper (8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
283 * python_distutils: Pass --force to setup.py build, to ensure that when
284 python-dbg is run it does not win and result in scripts having it in
285 the shebang line. Closes: #589759
286 * Man page fixes about what program -u passes params to. Closes: #593342
287 * Avoid open fd 5 or 6 breaking buildsystem test suite. Closes: #596679
288 * Large update to Spanish man page translations by Omar Campagne.
290 * dh_installdeb: Support debian/package.maintscript files,
291 which can contain dpkg-maintscript-helper commands. This can be used
292 to automate moving or removing conffiles, or anything added to
293 dpkg-maintscript-helper later on. Closes: #574443
294 (Thanks, Colin Watson)
295 * Massive man page typography patch. Closes: #600883
296 (Thanks, David Prévot)
297 * Explicitly build-depend on a new enough perl-base. Closes: #601188
298 * dh: Inhibit logging when an override target runs the overridden command,
299 to avoid unexpected behavior if the command succeeded but the overall
300 target fails. Closes: #601037
301 * Fix deprecated command list on translated debhelper(7) man pages.
303 * dh: Improve filtering in dh_listpackages example. Closes: #604561
304 * dh: Add support for build-arch, build-indep, install-arch and
305 install-indep sequences. Closes: #604563
306 (Thanks, Roger Leigh)
307 * dh_listpackages: Do not display warnings if options cause no packages
309 * dh_installdocs: Clarify that debian/README.Debian and debian/TODO are
310 only installed into the first package listed in debian/control.
312 * dh_compress: Javascript files are not compressed, as these go with
313 (uncompressed) html files. Closes: #603553
314 * dh_compress: Ignore objects.inv files, generated by Sphinx documentation.
316 * dh_installinit: never call init scripts directly, only through invoke-rc.d
318 (Thanks, Steve Langasek)
321 * update french translation.
322 * Fix french misspelling.
323 * French translation update after massive man page typography
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Feb 2011 12:00:04 -0400
327 debhelper (8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_fixperms: Ensure files in /etc/sudoers.d/ are mode 440. Closes: #589574
333 * Finalized v8 mode, which is the new recommended default.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:27:24 -0400
337 debhelper (7.9.3) unstable; urgency=low
339 * perl_makemaker: import compat(). Closes: #587654
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:42:09 -0400
343 debhelper (7.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
345 * In v8 mode, stop passing packlist=0 in perl_makemaker buildsystem,
346 since perl_build is tried first. Avoids the makemaker warning message
347 introduced by the fix to #527990.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:41:41 -0400
351 debhelper (7.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Started work on Debhelper v8. It is still experimental, and more
354 changes are planned for that mode.
355 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
356 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
357 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
358 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
359 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
360 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
361 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
362 (genesis) still uses them.
363 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
364 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
365 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
366 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
367 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
368 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
369 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
370 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
371 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
372 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
373 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
374 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
375 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
376 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
377 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
378 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
379 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
380 commands. (See #570039)
381 * In v8 mode, prefer the perl_build buildsystem over perl_makemaker.
383 * postrm-init: Avoid calling the error handler if update-rc.d fails.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:44:48 -0400
388 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
392 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
393 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
394 in control file or debhelper config files.
395 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
399 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
401 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
402 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
403 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
407 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
410 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
414 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
417 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
418 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
422 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Updated French translation.
425 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
426 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
427 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
428 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
430 * Typo. Closes: #571968
431 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
432 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
433 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
434 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
435 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
436 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
437 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
438 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
439 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
441 * dh: Improve documentation.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
445 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
447 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
448 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
449 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
453 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
456 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
460 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
463 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
467 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
469 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
470 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
471 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
472 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
473 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
474 options that they do not support.
475 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
476 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
477 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
478 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
479 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
480 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
485 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
489 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
490 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
491 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
492 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
493 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
494 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
495 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
496 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
497 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
501 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
504 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
505 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
506 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
507 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
511 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Typo. Closes: #558654
514 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
515 installed. Closes: #558782
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
519 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
522 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
523 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
524 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
525 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
526 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
530 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
532 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
533 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
534 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
535 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
539 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
542 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
543 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
547 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
549 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
553 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
555 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
556 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
557 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
558 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
559 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
560 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
561 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
562 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
563 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
564 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
565 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
566 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
567 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
568 time soon.) Closes: #554509
569 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
571 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
572 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
573 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
574 document id. Closes: #555677
575 * Typo. Closes: #555659
576 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
577 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
578 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
579 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
581 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
582 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
583 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
588 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
591 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
592 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
593 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
594 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
595 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
596 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
597 translation (#494300 part 2)
600 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
602 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
603 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
604 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
605 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
606 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
610 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
613 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
614 (It was only run once due to logging.)
615 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
616 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
617 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
618 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
619 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
620 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
621 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
622 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
623 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
624 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
628 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
632 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
635 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
636 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
640 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
643 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
644 flag with arch all/any packages.
645 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
646 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
647 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
648 situation. Closes: #540794
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
652 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
656 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
657 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
658 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
659 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
660 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
663 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
664 the default. Closes: #538201
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
669 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
673 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
674 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
675 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
676 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
677 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
679 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
680 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
681 * Above Closes: #491117
682 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
687 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
693 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
694 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
695 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
699 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
702 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
703 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
704 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
705 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
706 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
711 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
714 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
715 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
719 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
721 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
725 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
727 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
728 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
730 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
731 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
732 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
736 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
738 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
739 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
743 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
749 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
751 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
752 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
753 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
758 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
760 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
764 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
767 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
768 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
769 created by using `python' first during build and install.
771 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
776 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
778 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
782 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
784 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
785 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
789 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
791 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
795 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
797 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
801 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
803 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
804 contributed by Modestas Vainius
805 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
806 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
807 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
808 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
809 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
810 that support it. Closes: #480577
811 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
812 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
813 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
815 - Adds support for cmake.
816 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
817 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
819 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
821 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
822 that use them. The options are:
823 --sourcedir, --destdir
824 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
825 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
826 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
827 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
828 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
832 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
834 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
838 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
841 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
842 default. Closes: #537140
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
846 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
849 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
850 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
854 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
857 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
861 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
864 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
868 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
871 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
873 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
874 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
875 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
879 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
882 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
883 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
884 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
888 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
891 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
892 warning or deprecation message.
893 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
894 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
895 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
896 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
897 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
898 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
899 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
900 Closes: #534639, #357434
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
904 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
910 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
913 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
914 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
915 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
916 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
918 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
919 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
920 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
924 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
930 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
937 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
940 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
944 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
948 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
949 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
951 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
952 file support. Closes: #494914
953 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
957 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
960 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
961 parameters. Closes: #527256
962 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
963 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
964 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
968 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
972 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
973 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
974 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
978 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
980 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
981 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
982 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
983 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
987 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
990 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
991 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
993 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
994 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
995 by triggers). Closes: #521181
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
999 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
1003 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
1007 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
1010 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
1011 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
1012 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
1013 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
1018 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
1024 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
1027 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
1028 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
1029 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
1030 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
1031 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
1033 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
1034 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
1035 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
1036 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
1037 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
1038 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
1042 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
1045 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
1046 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
1047 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
1048 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
1049 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
1051 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
1055 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
1057 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
1061 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
1063 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
1064 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
1065 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
1066 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
1067 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
1068 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
1069 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
1070 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
1071 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
1072 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
1073 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
1077 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
1079 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
1080 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
1082 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
1083 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
1084 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
1085 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
1087 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
1088 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
1092 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
1094 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
1095 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
1096 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
1097 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
1098 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
1099 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
1100 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
1102 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
1103 that uses them. Affected options are:
1104 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
1105 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
1106 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
1107 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
1108 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
1109 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
1110 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
1111 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
1112 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
1113 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
1114 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
1115 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
1119 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
1126 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
1132 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
1135 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
1137 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
1138 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
1139 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
1140 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
1141 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
1142 than the old method.
1143 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
1145 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
1146 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
1147 rules (see bug #509756).
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
1151 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
1157 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
1158 * Typo. Closes: #493062
1159 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
1160 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
1164 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
1167 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
1168 empty files. Closes: #490937
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
1172 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
1178 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
1185 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
1188 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
1189 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
1190 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
1191 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
1196 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1198 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
1199 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
1200 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
1201 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
1205 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
1208 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
1209 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
1210 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
1211 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
1212 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
1216 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
1223 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
1226 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
1227 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
1228 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
1229 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
1230 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
1231 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
1232 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
1233 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
1234 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
1238 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
1241 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
1242 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
1243 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
1244 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
1246 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
1247 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
1248 breaking backwards compatibility.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
1252 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
1255 message in perl 5.10.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
1259 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
1265 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Convert copyright file to new format.
1268 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
1272 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
1275 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
1279 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
1282 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
1283 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
1284 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
1285 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
1286 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
1287 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
1288 logging by dh_listpackages.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
1292 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
1295 run and there are no packages of that type.
1296 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
1297 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
1298 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
1299 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
1301 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
1302 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
1306 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
1309 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
1310 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
1314 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
1317 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
1318 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
1320 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
1321 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
1322 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
1323 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
1324 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
1325 planned but not yet implemented.)
1326 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
1327 if the Makefile has such a target.
1328 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
1329 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
1330 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
1331 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
1332 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
1333 but not yet implemented.)
1334 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
1335 recommended default, especially when using dh.
1336 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
1337 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
1338 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
1340 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
1342 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
1343 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
1345 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
1346 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
1347 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
1352 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1355 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1356 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1360 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1362 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1363 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1364 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1368 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1374 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1380 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1383 just those installed by the program.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1387 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1390 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1391 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1395 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1398 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1399 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1400 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1401 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1405 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1408 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1409 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1413 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1416 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1417 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1421 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1424 with policy. Closes: #461392
1425 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1426 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1427 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1428 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1429 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1433 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1436 Closes: #460340, #460351
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1440 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1443 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1444 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1445 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1446 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1450 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1453 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1454 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1455 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1456 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1457 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1458 package build directory won't work.
1459 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1460 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1461 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1462 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1463 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1464 mode. Closes: #459426
1465 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1470 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1473 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1477 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1481 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1482 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1483 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1484 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1485 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1486 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1490 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1493 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1494 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1495 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1496 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1500 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1503 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1504 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1505 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1506 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1507 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1511 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1514 debian/package.triggers files.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1518 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1521 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1525 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1528 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1529 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1530 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1531 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1536 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1539 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1543 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1546 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1547 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1549 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1554 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1558 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1559 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1560 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1564 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1571 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1578 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1581 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1583 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1584 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1585 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1587 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1588 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1589 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1593 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1596 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1597 * Update urls to web page.
1598 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1599 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1600 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1601 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1605 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1608 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1609 - typo in alternatives call
1610 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1612 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1613 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1617 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1620 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1625 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1631 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1637 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1640 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1642 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1643 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1644 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1645 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1646 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1647 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1648 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1649 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1650 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1651 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1652 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1656 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1659 package install. Closes: #415717
1660 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1661 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1662 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1663 script and then remove the python files.
1664 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1665 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1666 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1667 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1668 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1669 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1670 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1671 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1672 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1673 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1674 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1675 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1676 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1680 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Correct typo in french translation
1686 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1687 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1689 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1691 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1692 Closes: #406921, #381940
1693 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1695 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1696 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1697 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1698 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1699 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1700 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1701 specified). Closes: #381851
1702 * Misc minor changes.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1706 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1713 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1714 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1718 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1724 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1725 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1728 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1729 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1731 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1732 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1733 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1734 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1738 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1741 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1744 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1748 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1754 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1760 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1761 a difficult situation.
1762 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1763 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1764 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1765 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1766 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1767 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1768 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1769 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1770 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1771 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1775 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Non-maintainer upload.
1778 * Update of dh_python
1779 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1780 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1782 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1783 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1784 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1785 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1786 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1788 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1790 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Non-maintainer upload.
1793 * Update of dh_python
1794 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1795 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1796 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1797 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1798 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1799 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1800 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1801 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1802 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1803 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1805 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1806 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1807 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1808 the not too-distant future).
1809 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1810 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1811 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1812 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1813 thus made the build fail.
1815 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1817 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Non-maintainer upload.
1820 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1822 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1824 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1827 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1828 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1829 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1830 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1831 package. Closes: #301424
1832 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1833 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1834 fonts). Closes: #372686
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1838 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1844 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1845 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1846 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1847 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1848 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1849 above, but already depends on that.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1853 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1856 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1857 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1858 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1859 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1860 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1864 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1870 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1876 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1877 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1881 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1884 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1888 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1892 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1893 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1894 new version (0.24.1).
1895 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1896 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1899 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1900 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1901 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1902 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1903 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1904 new directory on their own.
1905 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1906 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1910 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1913 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1914 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1915 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1916 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1920 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1923 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1924 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1925 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1926 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1927 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1931 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1937 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1941 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1942 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1946 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1947 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1951 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1953 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1954 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1956 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1957 ignored. Closes: #337664
1959 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1964 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1970 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1975 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1976 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1977 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1978 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1979 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1980 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1981 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1985 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1988 version. Closes: #350607
1989 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1990 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1991 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1992 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1996 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1999 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
2000 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
2001 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
2005 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
2012 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Minor bug fix from last release.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
2018 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
2021 language guessing. Closes: #193221
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
2025 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
2028 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
2029 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
2030 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
2031 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
2032 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
2033 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
2037 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
2040 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
2041 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
2046 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
2049 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
2053 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
2056 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
2060 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
2063 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
2064 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
2065 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
2066 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
2067 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
2068 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
2072 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
2076 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
2077 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
2078 link. Closes: #346405
2079 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
2081 [ Josselin Mouette ]
2082 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
2083 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
2084 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
2085 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
2086 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
2087 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
2091 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
2098 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
2104 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
2107 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
2111 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
2114 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
2119 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
2123 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
2124 installed. Closes: #342033
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
2128 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
2131 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
2132 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
2133 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
2138 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
2144 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
2150 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
2154 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
2155 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
2156 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
2160 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
2163 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
2168 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
2175 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
2181 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
2184 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
2185 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
2186 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
2187 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
2188 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
2189 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
2190 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
2192 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
2196 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
2199 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
2200 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
2204 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
2207 in standard man dirs.
2208 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
2212 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
2218 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
2221 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
2226 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
2233 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
2240 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
2243 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
2244 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
2248 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * NMU with maintainer approval.
2251 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
2252 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
2253 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
2255 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
2257 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
2263 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
2269 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
2272 mode. Closes: #324161
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
2276 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
2279 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
2280 behavior change. Closes: #249815
2281 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
2282 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
2287 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
2290 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
2291 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
2292 is necesary for sanity.
2293 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
2294 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
2299 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
2301 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
2302 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
2306 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
2309 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
2313 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
2319 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
2322 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
2323 released, so use at your own risk.
2324 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
2325 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
2327 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
2328 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
2329 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
2330 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
2331 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
2332 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
2333 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
2334 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
2335 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
2336 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
2337 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
2338 including twice per config file line now..
2339 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
2340 and simplfy the rules file.
2341 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
2342 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
2343 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
2345 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
2346 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
2350 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2353 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2357 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2360 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2364 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2367 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2371 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2374 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2375 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2376 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2377 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2378 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2379 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2383 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2386 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2387 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2388 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2393 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2396 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2397 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2402 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2405 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2406 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2407 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2412 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2415 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2416 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2417 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2421 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2427 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2434 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2437 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2438 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2439 unknown. Closes: #282924
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2443 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2450 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Spanish man page updates.
2453 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2458 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2464 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2467 * dh_desktop: reindent
2468 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2469 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2473 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2479 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2481 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2485 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2487 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2491 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2494 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2495 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2499 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2505 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2511 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2518 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2521 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2525 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2528 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2529 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2530 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2531 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2532 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2533 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2535 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2536 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2537 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2538 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2539 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2540 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2541 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2542 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2543 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2544 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2545 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2546 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2547 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2548 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2549 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2550 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2554 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2561 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2564 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2568 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2571 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2575 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2578 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2582 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2585 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2589 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2595 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2601 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2607 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2610 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2611 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2612 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2616 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2619 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2623 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2626 but occasionally right and necessary.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2630 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2633 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2634 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2635 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2636 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2637 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2641 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2644 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2646 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2647 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2648 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2649 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2650 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2651 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2652 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2653 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2654 postinst scripts for udebs.
2655 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2659 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2662 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2664 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2665 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2669 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2675 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2682 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2689 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2692 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2696 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2699 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2703 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2706 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2709 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2710 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2714 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2720 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2723 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2727 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2730 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2731 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2732 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2734 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2736 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2737 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2738 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2742 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2745 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2750 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2753 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2754 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2755 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2760 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2766 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2772 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2775 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2776 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2777 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2778 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2779 associated -dbg packages.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2783 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2786 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2790 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2793 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2797 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2800 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2804 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2807 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2812 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2815 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2819 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2822 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2830 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2834 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2838 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2839 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2840 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2841 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2842 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2843 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2844 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2845 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2846 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2847 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2851 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2854 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2859 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2862 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2863 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2867 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2870 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2871 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2876 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2879 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2883 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2886 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2890 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2893 out section number. Closes: #204731
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2897 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2904 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2910 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2916 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2919 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2920 removal. Closes: #204286
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2924 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2927 renaming. Closes: #203548
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2931 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2934 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2935 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2939 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2945 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2951 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2957 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2960 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2961 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2962 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2966 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2969 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2970 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2974 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2980 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2987 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2990 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2995 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2998 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
3002 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
3005 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
3007 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
3008 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
3012 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
3015 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
3020 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
3023 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
3027 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
3033 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
3035 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
3039 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
3042 it break hard links (see #188663).
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
3046 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
3049 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
3053 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
3059 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
3063 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
3064 debconf-mergetemplates
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
3068 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
3071 pod2man. Closes: #184013
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
3075 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
3078 * Typo, Closes: #183267
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
3082 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
3085 * Update debhelper(1).
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
3089 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
3092 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
3093 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
3094 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
3095 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
3096 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
3100 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
3103 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
3104 the shell. Closes: #178524
3105 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
3109 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
3112 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
3116 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
3119 undocumented.7 links anymore.
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
3123 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
3126 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
3127 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
3128 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
3129 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
3134 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
3137 files from installation.
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
3141 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
3144 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
3145 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
3149 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
3152 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
3156 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
3159 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
3163 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
3169 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
3175 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
3179 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
3180 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
3182 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
3186 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
3189 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
3190 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
3191 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
3192 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
3196 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
3199 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
3203 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
3206 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
3207 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
3211 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
3215 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
3220 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
3226 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
3230 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
3231 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
3232 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
3237 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
3240 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
3241 practice. Closes: #163303
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
3245 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
3251 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
3258 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * The "reverse hangover" release.
3261 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
3263 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
3264 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
3265 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
3266 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
3267 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
3271 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
3274 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
3279 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
3285 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
3292 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
3295 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
3300 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
3306 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
3312 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
3318 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
3325 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
3328 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
3329 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
3330 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
3331 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
3336 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Typo, Closes: #155323
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
3342 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
3349 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
3352 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3353 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3357 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3360 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3361 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3362 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3363 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3364 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3368 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3371 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3373 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3378 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3381 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3385 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3388 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3389 right thing. Closes: #150644
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3393 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * Stupid, evil typo.
3396 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3400 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3407 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3410 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3411 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3416 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3422 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3425 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3429 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3432 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3433 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3438 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3441 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3445 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3451 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3454 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3455 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3459 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3465 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Removing perl warning message.
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3471 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3474 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3475 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3476 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3477 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3478 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3479 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3480 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3481 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3485 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3491 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3498 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3501 debconf-mergetemplate.
3502 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3503 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3507 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3510 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3511 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3512 dh_install, which ...
3513 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3514 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3515 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3516 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3517 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3518 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3519 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3520 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3521 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3522 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3523 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3524 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3525 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3526 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3527 other minor changes.
3528 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3529 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3530 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3531 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3532 course there's -X ..)
3533 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3534 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3535 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3537 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3538 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3539 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3540 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3541 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3546 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3552 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3555 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3559 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3565 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3571 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3577 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3583 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3586 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3587 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3588 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3589 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3591 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3592 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3596 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3602 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3605 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3609 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3612 upset. Closes: #131322
3614 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3616 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3619 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3620 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3621 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3622 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3623 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3624 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3625 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3626 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3627 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3628 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3629 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3630 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3631 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3632 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3633 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3635 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3639 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3642 - Better indenting of generated code.
3643 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3647 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3651 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3652 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3653 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3654 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3655 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3656 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3657 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3661 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3664 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3668 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3671 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3672 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3673 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3674 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3675 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3676 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3677 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3678 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3679 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3680 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3681 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3682 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3683 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3684 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3685 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3690 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3696 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3699 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3700 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3704 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3707 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3708 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3712 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3718 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3721 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3722 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3723 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3724 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3725 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3730 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3736 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3739 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3743 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3746 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3751 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3757 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3760 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3764 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3770 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3774 Also some indentation fixes.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3778 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3781 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3782 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3783 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3784 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3785 Closes: #106514, #85520
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3789 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3795 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3801 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3807 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3813 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3819 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3822 change it in debhelper v4..
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3826 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3832 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3835 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3839 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3842 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3846 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3852 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3855 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3856 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3857 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3858 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3859 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3860 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3861 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3862 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3863 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3864 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3865 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3866 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3870 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3873 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3877 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3884 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3887 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3888 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3889 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3890 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3891 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3892 program those options go to. So, for example,
3893 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3894 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3895 something complex. Closes: #89311
3896 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3900 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3903 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3904 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3905 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3909 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3912 through loop. Closes: #98598
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3916 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * Missing semi-colon.
3919 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3920 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3924 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3927 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3928 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3929 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3933 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3936 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3937 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3941 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3944 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3948 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3951 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3952 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3956 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3959 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3960 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3961 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3965 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3968 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3969 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3970 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3974 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3977 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3981 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3987 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3993 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3999 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
4005 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
4008 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
4012 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
4015 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
4016 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
4017 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
4018 followed. Closes: #85483
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
4022 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4024 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
4025 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
4026 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
4030 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
4033 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
4034 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
4035 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
4036 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
4037 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
4038 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
4039 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
4040 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
4041 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
4042 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
4043 Closes: #88464, #77743
4044 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
4045 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
4046 us to deal with that gracefully.
4047 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
4049 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
4050 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
4051 a while, Closes: #51225
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
4055 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
4061 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
4064 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
4068 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
4072 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
4077 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
4080 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
4081 don't make packlist files.
4082 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
4083 debhelper coding standards.
4084 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
4085 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
4089 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
4092 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
4096 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
4099 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
4100 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
4101 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
4102 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
4103 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
4104 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
4105 but is mildly deprecated.
4106 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
4107 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
4108 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
4109 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
4110 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
4111 switching to statoverrides..
4112 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
4113 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
4114 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
4115 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
4116 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
4117 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
4119 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
4120 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
4121 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
4122 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
4123 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
4124 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
4125 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
4126 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
4127 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
4129 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
4130 variable names, pod man pages).
4131 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
4132 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
4133 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
4134 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
4135 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
4136 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
4137 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
4141 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
4147 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
4154 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
4157 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
4161 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4163 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
4164 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
4165 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
4169 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
4171 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
4172 they were previously ignored.
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
4176 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
4178 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
4179 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
4183 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4185 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
4186 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
4187 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
4191 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
4193 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
4197 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
4199 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
4200 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
4204 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
4206 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
4207 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
4208 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
4209 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
4210 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
4211 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
4212 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
4213 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
4214 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
4215 it is an obsolete program.
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
4219 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
4221 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
4225 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
4229 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
4231 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
4235 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
4237 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
4239 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
4241 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
4245 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
4251 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * typo: Closes, #78567
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
4257 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
4263 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
4269 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
4272 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
4273 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
4274 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
4275 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
4276 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
4280 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
4283 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
4288 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
4291 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
4292 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
4293 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
4294 backwards-compatibility.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
4298 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
4301 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
4302 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
4303 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
4304 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
4305 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
4306 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
4308 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
4309 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
4310 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
4312 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
4314 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
4315 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
4316 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
4317 should now be raised to severity important..
4318 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
4319 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
4323 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
4326 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
4331 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * Typo, Closes: #77441
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
4337 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * Completed the fix from the last version.
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
4343 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
4349 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4356 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4359 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4360 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4361 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4362 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4366 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4372 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4375 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4376 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4377 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4378 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4379 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4380 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4385 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4388 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4392 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4394 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4398 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4401 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4406 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4409 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4410 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4411 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4412 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4416 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4420 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4423 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4426 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4427 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4430 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4432 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4433 the TODO entry about it.
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4437 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4444 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4447 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4448 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4452 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4455 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4456 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4457 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4458 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4462 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4468 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4475 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4478 (this appears to be logal).
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4482 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4485 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4486 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4487 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4488 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4492 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4498 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4501 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4502 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4503 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4504 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4508 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4514 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4517 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4521 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4528 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4531 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4532 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4533 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4538 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4545 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4551 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4554 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4555 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4556 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4557 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4558 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4559 notice until v2 is complete.
4560 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4561 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4562 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4563 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4564 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4565 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4567 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4568 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4569 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4570 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4590 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4594 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4601 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4604 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4605 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4606 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4607 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4612 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4615 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4616 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4617 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4622 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4625 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4626 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4630 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4633 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4637 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4640 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4644 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4651 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4654 depend on the build and install targets.
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4658 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4661 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4665 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4672 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4678 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4684 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4687 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4688 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4689 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4690 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4691 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4692 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4694 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4695 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4696 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4697 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4698 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4699 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4700 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4704 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4710 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4716 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4719 right place. Closes: #55065
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4723 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4730 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4733 * Copyright date updates.
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4737 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4740 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4745 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4751 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4758 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4764 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4770 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4776 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4779 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4780 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4781 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4782 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4783 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4784 bits until all files have been registered.
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4788 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * dh_installmanpages:
4791 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4792 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4793 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4794 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4795 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4796 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4797 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4798 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4799 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4800 otherwise change the result at all.
4802 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4803 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4804 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4805 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4806 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4811 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4817 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4819 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4820 act on files that don't exist.
4821 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4822 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4823 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4825 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4826 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4827 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4828 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4832 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4838 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4844 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4847 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4851 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4854 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4856 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4857 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4858 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4862 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4865 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4866 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4867 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4868 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4869 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4870 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4871 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4873 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4875 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4879 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4886 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4892 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4898 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4901 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4905 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4911 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4913 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4917 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4920 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4921 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4922 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4923 I made some changes, though:
4924 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4925 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4926 that is a clear violation of policy.
4927 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4928 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4929 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4930 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4931 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4932 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4933 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4934 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4935 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4937 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4941 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4947 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4950 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4954 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4957 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4958 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4963 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4969 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4976 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4978 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4979 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4980 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4981 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4982 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4983 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4984 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4985 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4989 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4995 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4999 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
5000 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
5004 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
5010 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
5013 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
5017 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
5020 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
5021 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
5025 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
5027 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
5032 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
5036 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
5040 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
5043 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
5044 for the dependancies to be generated.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
5048 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
5051 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
5055 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
5058 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
5059 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
5060 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
5065 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
5068 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
5069 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
5073 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
5079 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
5085 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
5088 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
5092 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
5098 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
5101 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
5102 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
5103 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
5104 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
5105 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
5106 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
5107 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
5108 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
5109 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
5110 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
5111 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
5112 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
5116 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
5119 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
5120 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
5122 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
5123 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
5124 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
5125 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
5126 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
5127 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
5129 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
5130 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
5134 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
5137 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
5141 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
5148 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
5151 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
5156 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
5159 for building debhelper.
5160 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
5164 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
5169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
5171 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5173 * Fixed makefile commit target.
5174 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
5178 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
5181 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
5182 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
5183 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
5184 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
5185 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
5186 it's always available.
5188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
5190 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5192 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
5193 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
5194 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
5195 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
5199 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
5202 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
5203 modules. (Closes: #42171)
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
5207 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
5211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
5213 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5215 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
5216 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
5220 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
5226 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
5229 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
5230 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
5231 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
5235 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
5238 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
5243 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
5246 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
5247 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
5249 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
5250 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
5254 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
5260 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
5266 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
5269 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
5271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
5273 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
5275 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
5276 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
5277 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
5279 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
5283 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
5286 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
5287 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
5288 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
5292 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
5295 things if CDPATH is set.
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
5299 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
5305 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
5308 seems to make sense for the transition.
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
5312 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
5315 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
5320 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
5323 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
5324 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
5328 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
5331 that version. (Closes: #40589)
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
5335 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
5338 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
5339 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
5340 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
5341 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
5345 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
5351 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5354 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5355 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5356 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5357 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5358 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5359 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5360 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5361 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5362 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5363 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5368 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5371 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5372 * README: mention doc/v2
5373 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5374 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5378 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5380 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5381 be using this script RSN.
5383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5385 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5387 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5388 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5389 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5390 more than 1 init script.
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5394 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5397 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5401 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * Changed perl version detection.
5404 * Changed call to find.
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5408 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5411 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5413 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5418 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * Really include dh_installpam.
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5424 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5427 * Wrote man page for same.
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5431 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5434 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5435 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5440 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5442 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5447 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5450 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5451 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5452 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5453 x bit was being set!
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5457 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5460 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5461 well. (Closes: 38900)
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5465 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5468 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5469 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5473 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5479 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5486 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5492 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5495 help from Julian Gilbey.
5496 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5497 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5498 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5499 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5500 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5501 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5502 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5507 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5513 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5520 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5526 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5532 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5534 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5535 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5539 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5542 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5546 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5549 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5553 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5559 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5562 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5566 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5572 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5578 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5581 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5582 may be deleted. (#35845)
5584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5586 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5588 * Various man page enhancements.
5589 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5594 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5596 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5597 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5598 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5602 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5605 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5606 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5607 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5609 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5610 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5615 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5621 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * Another very minor typo fix.
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5627 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * Very minor typo fix.
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5633 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5636 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5637 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5641 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5647 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5649 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5650 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5651 variables properly (#34850).
5653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5655 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5657 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5661 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5664 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5665 (automatically generated by build process).
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5669 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5671 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5675 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5677 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5678 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5679 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5681 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5685 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5688 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5692 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * README: minor typo fix.
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5698 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5701 leave it at that. :-)
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5705 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5711 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5717 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5719 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5720 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5721 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5722 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5726 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5729 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5733 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5736 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5740 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5743 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5744 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5745 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5746 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5750 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5752 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5753 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5754 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5755 Craig Small for spotting this.
5757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5759 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5761 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5762 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5763 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5767 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5773 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5776 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5780 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5782 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5783 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5784 working on the last version of debhelper.
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5788 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5791 being made. (#23255)
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5795 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5797 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5801 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5803 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5804 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5808 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5810 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5811 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5812 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5813 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5814 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5818 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5821 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5822 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5823 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5824 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5826 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5827 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5829 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5834 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5840 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5846 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5848 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5849 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5850 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5851 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5852 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5853 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5854 suidregister actually supports it.
5855 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5856 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5860 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5867 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5870 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5871 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5872 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5873 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5874 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5875 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5876 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5880 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5882 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5883 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5887 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5890 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5891 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5892 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5893 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5897 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5899 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5900 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5902 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5903 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5904 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5905 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5906 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5907 effect, either. (#30118)
5909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5911 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5913 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5917 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5919 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5920 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5921 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5925 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5927 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5931 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5933 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5934 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5935 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5936 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5937 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5941 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5944 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5945 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5949 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5955 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5958 packages, painlessly.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5962 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5968 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5974 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5976 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5980 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5982 * The perl conversion is complete.
5984 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5986 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5987 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5988 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5993 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5996 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5997 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5998 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
6002 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
6005 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
6007 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
6009 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
6010 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
6014 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
6017 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
6018 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
6022 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
6028 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
6031 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
6032 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
6033 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
6034 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
6035 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
6039 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
6042 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
6043 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
6044 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
6045 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
6047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
6049 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
6051 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
6052 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
6054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
6056 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
6058 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
6059 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
6060 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
6061 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
6062 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
6063 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
6064 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
6065 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
6066 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
6068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
6070 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
6072 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
6074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
6076 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
6078 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
6079 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
6080 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
6081 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
6084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
6086 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
6088 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
6089 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
6093 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
6096 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
6098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
6100 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
6102 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
6103 sections of shared libraries.
6104 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
6105 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
6106 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
6107 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
6108 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
6109 things you don't want them to.
6110 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
6111 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
6115 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
6117 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
6118 shared libraries. (#26414)
6120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
6122 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
6124 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
6125 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
6126 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
6127 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
6129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
6131 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
6133 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
6135 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
6137 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
6138 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
6139 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
6140 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
6141 the program to not fail. (#26214)
6143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
6145 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
6147 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
6148 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
6150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
6152 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
6154 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
6155 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
6156 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
6159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
6161 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
6163 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
6164 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
6166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
6168 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
6170 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
6171 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
6172 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
6173 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
6174 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
6175 I apologize for the inconvenience.
6177 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
6178 remove debian/files properly.
6179 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
6180 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
6181 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
6182 * Removed bogus menu file.
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
6186 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
6189 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
6193 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
6196 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
6197 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
6198 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
6199 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
6200 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
6201 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
6203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
6205 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
6207 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
6208 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
6209 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
6210 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
6211 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
6213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
6215 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
6217 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
6222 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
6225 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
6226 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
6228 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
6229 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
6230 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
6231 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
6232 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
6233 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
6235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
6237 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
6239 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
6240 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
6241 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
6242 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
6243 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
6244 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
6245 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
6246 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
6247 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
6248 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
6249 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
6250 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
6251 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
6252 passed any switches.
6253 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
6255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
6257 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
6259 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
6260 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
6261 at all for a long while.
6262 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
6263 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
6264 large chunks in the process.
6265 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
6266 install many oddly named files it died on before.
6267 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
6270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
6272 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
6274 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
6275 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
6277 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
6280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
6282 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
6284 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
6285 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
6286 that don't always have the same files in them.
6287 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
6288 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
6289 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
6291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
6293 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
6295 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
6297 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
6298 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
6299 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
6300 updating 27 man pages.
6301 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
6302 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
6303 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
6304 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
6305 programs act on. (#25247)
6307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
6309 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
6313 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
6314 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
6315 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
6316 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
6317 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
6318 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
6321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
6323 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
6325 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
6330 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
6335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
6337 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
6339 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
6340 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
6342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
6344 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
6346 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
6350 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
6352 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6353 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6354 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6355 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6356 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6357 package by accident.
6358 * Is version 1.0 next?
6360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6362 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6364 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6365 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6366 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6370 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6372 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6373 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6374 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6375 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6376 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6377 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6379 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6384 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6386 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6387 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6388 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6392 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6394 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6395 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6399 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6401 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6402 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6403 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6408 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6410 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6414 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6416 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6417 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6418 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6423 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6425 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6429 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6431 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6432 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6433 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6434 past week. Thanks, guys!
6436 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6437 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6438 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6439 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6440 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6441 would do in the same situation.
6442 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6443 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6445 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6447 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6448 permissions changed.
6449 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6450 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6451 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6452 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6453 files are treated identically.
6454 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6455 * Minor man page fixes.
6456 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6457 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6458 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6462 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6464 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6465 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6466 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6467 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6468 use -X multiple times, too.
6469 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6470 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6474 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6476 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6477 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6478 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6482 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6484 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6485 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6489 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6491 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6492 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6493 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6494 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6495 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6496 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6497 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6498 shape if you're starting a new package.
6500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6502 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6504 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6505 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6509 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6512 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6513 because of missing symlinks.
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6517 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6523 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6525 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6526 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6527 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6528 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6529 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6530 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6532 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6533 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6537 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6539 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6540 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6541 to be changed after the fact :-)
6542 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6546 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6548 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6549 no version string after the -V.
6551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6553 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6555 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6556 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6561 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6563 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6564 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6568 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6571 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6572 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6573 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6574 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6575 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6576 I always welcome corrections!
6578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6580 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6582 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6586 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6588 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6589 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6590 * Documented this new switch.
6592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6594 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6596 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6597 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6598 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6599 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6600 no packages use the old behavior.
6602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6604 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6606 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6607 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6608 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6612 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6614 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6615 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6619 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6621 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6625 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6627 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6628 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6632 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6634 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6635 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6636 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6637 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6641 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6643 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6647 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6649 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6650 into the source package by accident.
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6654 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6656 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6657 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6658 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6659 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6660 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6661 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6662 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6667 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6669 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6671 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6672 inspired to implement some of it.
6673 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6677 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6679 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6680 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6684 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6686 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6687 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6688 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6692 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6694 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6695 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6696 have done.) (#17598)
6698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6700 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6702 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6706 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6708 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6712 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6714 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6715 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6719 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6721 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6722 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6723 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6727 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6729 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6730 argument processor in perl.
6731 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6732 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6733 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6734 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6738 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6740 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6741 type directories. (#16933)
6742 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6743 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6744 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6745 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6746 are supported. (#16935)
6747 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6752 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6754 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6755 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6759 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6761 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6763 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6764 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6765 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6766 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6767 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6768 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6772 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6774 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6775 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6776 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6778 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6779 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6780 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6781 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6782 a given package, or -i or -a.
6783 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6784 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6785 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6786 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6787 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6788 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6789 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6790 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6791 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6793 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6794 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6795 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6799 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6801 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6802 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6803 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6808 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6810 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6811 does not have a section.
6813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6815 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6817 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6818 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6819 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6820 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6824 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6826 * Fixed typo #16215.
6828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6830 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6832 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6833 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6834 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6835 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6836 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6837 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6842 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6844 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6845 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6846 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6847 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6852 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6854 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6858 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6860 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6864 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6866 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6867 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6868 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6869 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6870 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6871 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6872 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6876 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6878 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6882 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6884 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6885 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6889 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6891 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6892 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6893 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6894 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6898 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6900 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6901 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6905 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6907 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6911 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6913 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6914 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6918 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6920 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6921 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6925 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6927 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6931 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6933 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6934 postinst, postrm, etc.
6936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6938 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6940 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6944 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6946 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6947 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6948 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6949 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6950 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6951 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6955 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6957 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6958 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6959 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6963 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6965 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6966 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6970 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6972 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6973 installing package files into.
6974 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6979 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6981 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6983 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6987 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6989 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6993 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6995 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6996 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
7000 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
7002 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
7003 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
7004 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
7005 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
7006 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
7008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
7010 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
7012 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
7013 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
7014 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
7015 multiple binary packages.
7016 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
7017 should rebuild them with this version.
7018 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
7020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
7022 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
7024 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
7025 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
7027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
7029 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
7031 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
7032 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
7034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
7036 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
7038 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
7039 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
7040 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
7041 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
7042 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
7043 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
7044 debian/README.debian.
7045 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
7046 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
7047 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
7048 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
7049 in a few situations.)
7051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
7053 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
7055 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
7057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
7059 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
7061 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
7063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
7065 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
7067 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
7068 * Fixed several man pages.
7070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
7072 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
7074 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
7075 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
7076 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
7078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
7080 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
7082 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
7083 is ready for general use.
7084 * Added man pages for all commands.
7085 * Multiple binary package support.
7086 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
7087 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
7088 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
7090 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
7091 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
7092 auto-installed as parameters.
7093 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
7095 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
7098 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
7099 the package build directory it is to act on.
7100 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
7101 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
7102 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
7104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
7106 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
7108 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
7109 ready to replace debstd.
7111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400