1 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Updated French translation.
4 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
5 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
6 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
7 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
9 * Typo. Closes: #571968
10 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
11 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
12 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
13 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
14 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
15 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
16 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
17 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
18 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
20 * dh: Improve documentation.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
24 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
26 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
27 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
28 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
32 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
35 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
39 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
42 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
46 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
49 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
50 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
51 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
52 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
53 options that they do not support.
54 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
55 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
56 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
57 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
58 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
59 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
64 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
68 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
69 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
70 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
71 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
72 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
73 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
74 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
75 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
76 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
80 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
83 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
84 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
85 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
86 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
90 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Typo. Closes: #558654
93 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
94 installed. Closes: #558782
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
98 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
101 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
102 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
103 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
104 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
105 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
109 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
111 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
112 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
113 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
114 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
118 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
121 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
122 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
126 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
128 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
132 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
134 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
135 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
136 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
137 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
138 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
139 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
140 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
141 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
142 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
143 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
144 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
145 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
146 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
147 time soon.) Closes: #554509
148 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
150 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
151 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
152 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
153 document id. Closes: #555677
154 * Typo. Closes: #555659
155 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
156 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
157 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
158 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
160 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
161 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
162 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
167 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
170 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
171 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
172 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
173 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
174 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
175 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
176 translation (#494300 part 2)
179 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
181 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
182 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
183 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
184 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
185 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
189 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
192 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
193 (It was only run once due to logging.)
194 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
195 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
196 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
197 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
198 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
199 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
200 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
201 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
202 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
203 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
207 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
211 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
214 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
215 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
219 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
222 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
223 flag with arch all/any packages.
224 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
225 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
226 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
227 situation. Closes: #540794
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
231 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
235 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
236 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
237 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
238 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
239 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
242 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
243 the default. Closes: #538201
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
248 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
252 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
253 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
254 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
255 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
256 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
258 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
259 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
260 * Above Closes: #491117
261 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
266 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
272 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
273 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
274 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
278 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
281 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
282 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
283 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
284 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
285 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
290 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
293 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
294 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
298 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
300 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
304 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
306 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
307 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
309 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
310 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
311 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
315 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
317 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
318 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
322 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
328 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
330 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
331 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
332 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
337 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
339 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
343 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
346 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
347 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
348 created by using `python' first during build and install.
350 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
355 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
357 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
361 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
363 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
364 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
368 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
370 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
374 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
376 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
380 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
382 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
383 contributed by Modestas Vainius
384 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
385 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
386 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
387 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
388 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
389 that support it. Closes: #480577
390 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
391 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
392 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
394 - Adds support for cmake.
395 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
396 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
398 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
400 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
401 that use them. The options are:
402 --sourcedir, --destdir
403 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
404 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
405 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
406 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
407 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
411 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
417 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
420 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
421 default. Closes: #537140
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
425 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
428 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
429 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
433 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
436 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
440 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
443 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
447 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
450 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
452 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
453 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
454 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
458 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
460 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
461 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
462 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
463 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
467 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
470 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
471 warning or deprecation message.
472 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
473 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
474 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
475 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
476 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
477 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
478 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
479 Closes: #534639, #357434
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
483 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
485 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
489 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
491 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
492 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
493 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
494 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
495 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
497 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
498 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
499 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
503 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
509 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
511 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
516 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
519 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
523 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
527 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
528 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
530 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
531 file support. Closes: #494914
532 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
536 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
539 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
540 parameters. Closes: #527256
541 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
542 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
543 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
547 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
551 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
552 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
553 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
557 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
560 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
561 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
562 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
566 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
569 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
570 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
572 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
573 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
574 by triggers). Closes: #521181
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
578 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
580 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
582 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
586 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
589 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
590 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
591 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
592 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
597 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
603 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
606 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
607 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
608 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
609 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
610 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
612 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
613 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
614 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
615 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
616 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
617 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
621 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
624 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
625 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
626 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
627 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
628 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
630 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
634 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
636 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
640 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
642 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
643 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
644 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
645 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
646 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
647 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
648 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
649 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
650 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
651 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
652 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
656 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
658 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
659 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
661 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
662 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
663 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
664 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
666 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
667 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
671 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
673 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
674 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
675 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
676 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
677 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
678 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
679 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
681 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
682 that uses them. Affected options are:
683 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
684 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
685 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
686 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
687 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
688 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
689 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
690 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
691 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
692 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
693 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
694 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
698 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
705 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
711 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
713 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
714 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
716 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
717 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
718 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
719 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
720 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
722 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
724 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
725 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
726 rules (see bug #509756).
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
730 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
736 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
737 * Typo. Closes: #493062
738 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
739 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
743 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
746 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
747 empty files. Closes: #490937
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
751 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
757 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
764 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
767 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
768 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
769 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
770 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
775 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
777 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
778 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
779 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
780 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
784 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
787 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
788 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
789 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
790 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
791 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
795 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
802 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
804 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
805 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
806 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
807 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
808 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
809 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
810 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
811 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
812 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
813 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
817 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
820 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
821 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
822 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
823 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
825 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
826 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
827 breaking backwards compatibility.
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
831 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
834 message in perl 5.10.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
838 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
844 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Convert copyright file to new format.
847 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
851 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
854 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
858 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
861 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
862 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
863 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
864 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
865 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
866 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
867 logging by dh_listpackages.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
871 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
873 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
874 run and there are no packages of that type.
875 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
876 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
877 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
878 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
880 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
881 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
885 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
887 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
888 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
889 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
893 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
896 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
897 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
899 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
900 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
901 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
902 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
903 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
904 planned but not yet implemented.)
905 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
906 if the Makefile has such a target.
907 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
908 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
909 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
910 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
911 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
912 but not yet implemented.)
913 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
914 recommended default, especially when using dh.
915 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
916 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
917 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
919 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
921 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
922 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
924 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
925 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
926 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
931 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
934 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
935 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
939 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
941 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
942 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
943 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
947 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
953 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
959 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
962 just those installed by the program.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
966 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
969 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
970 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
974 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
977 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
978 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
979 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
980 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
984 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
987 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
988 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
992 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
995 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
996 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1000 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1003 with policy. Closes: #461392
1004 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1005 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1006 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1007 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1008 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1012 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1015 Closes: #460340, #460351
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1019 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1022 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1023 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1024 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1025 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1029 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1032 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1033 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1034 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1035 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1036 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1037 package build directory won't work.
1038 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1039 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1040 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1041 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1042 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1043 mode. Closes: #459426
1044 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1049 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1052 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1056 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1060 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1061 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1062 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1063 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1064 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1065 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1069 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1072 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1073 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1074 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1075 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1079 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1082 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1083 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1084 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1085 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1086 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1090 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1093 debian/package.triggers files.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1097 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1100 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1104 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1107 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1108 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1109 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1110 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1115 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1118 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1122 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1125 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1126 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1128 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1133 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1137 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1138 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1139 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1143 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1150 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1157 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1160 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1162 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1163 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1164 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1166 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1167 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1168 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1172 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1175 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1176 * Update urls to web page.
1177 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1178 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1179 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1180 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1184 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1187 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1188 - typo in alternatives call
1189 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1191 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1192 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1196 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1199 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1204 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1210 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1216 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1219 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1221 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1222 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1223 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1224 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1225 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1226 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1227 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1228 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1229 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1230 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1231 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1235 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1238 package install. Closes: #415717
1239 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1240 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1241 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1242 script and then remove the python files.
1243 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1244 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1245 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1246 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1247 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1248 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1249 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1250 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1251 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1252 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1253 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1254 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1255 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1259 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Correct typo in french translation
1265 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1266 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1268 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1270 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1271 Closes: #406921, #381940
1272 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1274 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1275 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1276 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1277 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1278 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1279 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1280 specified). Closes: #381851
1281 * Misc minor changes.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1285 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1292 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1293 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1297 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1303 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1304 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1307 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1308 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1310 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1311 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1312 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1313 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1317 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1320 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1323 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1327 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1333 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1339 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1340 a difficult situation.
1341 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1342 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1343 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1344 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1345 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1346 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1347 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1348 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1349 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1350 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1354 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Non-maintainer upload.
1357 * Update of dh_python
1358 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1359 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1361 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1362 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1363 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1364 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1365 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1367 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1369 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * Non-maintainer upload.
1372 * Update of dh_python
1373 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1374 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1375 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1376 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1377 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1378 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1379 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1380 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1381 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1382 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1384 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1385 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1386 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1387 the not too-distant future).
1388 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1389 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1390 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1391 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1392 thus made the build fail.
1394 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1396 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Non-maintainer upload.
1399 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1401 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1403 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1406 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1407 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1408 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1409 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1410 package. Closes: #301424
1411 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1412 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1413 fonts). Closes: #372686
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1417 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1423 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1424 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1425 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1426 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1427 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1428 above, but already depends on that.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1432 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1435 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1436 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1437 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1438 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1439 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1443 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1449 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1455 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1456 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1460 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1463 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1467 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1471 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1472 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1473 new version (0.24.1).
1474 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1475 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1478 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1479 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1480 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1481 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1482 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1483 new directory on their own.
1484 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1485 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1489 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1492 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1493 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1494 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1495 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1499 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1502 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1503 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1504 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1505 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1506 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1510 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1516 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1520 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1521 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1525 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1526 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1530 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1532 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1533 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1535 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1536 ignored. Closes: #337664
1538 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1543 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1549 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1554 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1555 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1556 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1557 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1558 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1559 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1560 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1564 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1567 version. Closes: #350607
1568 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1569 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1570 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1571 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1575 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1578 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1579 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1580 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1584 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1591 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1597 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1600 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1604 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1607 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1608 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1609 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1610 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1611 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1612 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1616 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1619 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1620 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1625 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1628 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1632 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1635 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1639 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1642 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1643 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1644 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1645 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1646 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1647 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1651 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1655 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1656 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1657 link. Closes: #346405
1658 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1660 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1661 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1662 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1663 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1664 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1665 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1666 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1670 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1677 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1683 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1686 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1690 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1693 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1698 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1702 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1703 installed. Closes: #342033
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1707 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1710 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1711 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1712 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1717 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1723 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1729 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1733 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1734 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1735 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1739 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1742 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1747 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1754 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1760 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1763 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1764 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1765 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1766 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1767 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1768 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1769 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1771 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1775 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1778 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1779 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1783 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1786 in standard man dirs.
1787 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1791 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1797 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1800 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1805 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1812 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1819 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1822 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1823 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1827 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1830 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1831 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1832 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1834 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1836 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1842 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1848 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1851 mode. Closes: #324161
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1855 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1858 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1859 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1860 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1861 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1866 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1869 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1870 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1871 is necesary for sanity.
1872 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1873 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1878 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1880 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1881 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1885 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1888 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1898 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1901 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1902 released, so use at your own risk.
1903 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1904 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1906 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1907 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1908 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1909 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1910 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1911 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1912 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1913 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1914 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1915 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1916 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1917 including twice per config file line now..
1918 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1919 and simplfy the rules file.
1920 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1921 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1922 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1924 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1925 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1929 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1932 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1936 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1939 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1943 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1946 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1950 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1953 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1954 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1955 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1956 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1957 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1958 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1962 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1965 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1966 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1967 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1972 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1975 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1976 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1981 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1984 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1985 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1986 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1991 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1994 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1995 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1996 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2000 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2006 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2013 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2016 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2017 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2018 unknown. Closes: #282924
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2022 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2029 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Spanish man page updates.
2032 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2037 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2043 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2046 * dh_desktop: reindent
2047 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2048 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2052 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2058 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2060 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2064 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2066 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2070 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2073 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2074 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2078 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2084 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2090 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2097 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2100 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2104 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2107 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2108 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2109 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2110 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2111 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2112 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2114 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2115 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2116 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2117 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2118 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2119 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2120 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2121 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2122 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2123 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2124 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2125 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2126 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2127 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2128 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2129 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2133 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2140 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2143 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2147 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2150 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2154 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2157 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2161 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2164 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2168 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2174 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2180 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2186 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2189 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2190 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2191 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2195 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2198 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2202 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2205 but occasionally right and necessary.
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2209 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2212 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2213 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2214 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2215 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2216 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2220 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2223 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2225 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2226 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2227 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2228 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2229 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2230 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2231 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2232 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2233 postinst scripts for udebs.
2234 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2238 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2241 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2243 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2244 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2248 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2254 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2261 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2268 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2271 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2275 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2278 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2282 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2285 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2288 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2289 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2293 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2299 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2302 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2306 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2309 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2310 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2311 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2313 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2315 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2316 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2317 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2321 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2324 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2329 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2332 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2333 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2334 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2339 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2345 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2351 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2354 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2355 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2356 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2357 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2358 associated -dbg packages.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2362 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2365 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2369 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2372 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2376 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2379 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2383 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2386 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2391 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2394 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2401 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2409 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2413 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2417 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2418 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2419 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2420 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2421 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2422 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2423 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2424 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2425 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2426 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2433 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2438 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2441 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2442 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2446 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2449 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2450 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2455 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2458 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2462 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2465 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2469 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2472 out section number. Closes: #204731
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2476 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2483 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2489 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2495 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2498 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2499 removal. Closes: #204286
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2503 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2506 renaming. Closes: #203548
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2510 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2513 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2514 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2518 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2524 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2530 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2536 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2539 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2540 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2541 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2545 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2548 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2549 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2553 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2559 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2566 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2569 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2574 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2577 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2581 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2584 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2586 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2587 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2591 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2594 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2599 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2602 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2606 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2612 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2614 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2618 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2621 it break hard links (see #188663).
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2625 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2628 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2632 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2638 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2642 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2643 debconf-mergetemplates
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2647 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2650 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2654 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2657 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2661 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2664 * Update debhelper(1).
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2668 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2671 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2672 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2673 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2674 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2675 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2679 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2682 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2683 the shell. Closes: #178524
2684 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2688 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2691 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2695 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2698 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2702 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2705 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2706 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2707 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2708 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2713 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2716 files from installation.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2720 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2723 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2724 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2728 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2731 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2735 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2738 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2742 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2748 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2754 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2758 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2759 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2761 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2765 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2768 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2769 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2770 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2771 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2775 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2778 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2782 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2785 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2786 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2790 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2794 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2799 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2805 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2809 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2810 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2811 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2816 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2819 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2820 practice. Closes: #163303
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2824 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2830 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2837 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2840 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2842 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2843 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2844 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2845 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2846 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2850 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2853 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2858 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2864 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2871 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2874 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2879 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2885 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2891 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2897 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2904 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2907 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2908 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2909 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2910 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2915 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2921 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2928 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2931 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2932 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2936 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2939 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2940 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2941 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2942 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2943 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2947 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2950 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2952 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2957 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2960 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2964 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2967 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2968 right thing. Closes: #150644
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2972 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Stupid, evil typo.
2975 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2979 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2986 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2989 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2990 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2995 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3001 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3004 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3008 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3011 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3012 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3017 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3020 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3024 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3030 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3033 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3034 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3038 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3044 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Removing perl warning message.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3050 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3053 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3054 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3055 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3056 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3057 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3058 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3059 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3060 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3064 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3070 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3077 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3080 debconf-mergetemplate.
3081 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3082 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3086 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3089 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3090 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3091 dh_install, which ...
3092 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3093 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3094 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3095 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3096 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3097 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3098 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3099 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3100 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3101 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3102 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3103 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3104 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3105 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3106 other minor changes.
3107 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3108 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3109 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3110 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3111 course there's -X ..)
3112 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3113 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3114 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3116 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3117 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3118 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3119 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3120 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3125 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3131 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3134 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3138 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3144 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3150 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3156 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3162 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3165 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3166 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3167 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3168 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3170 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3171 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3175 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3181 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3184 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3188 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3191 upset. Closes: #131322
3193 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3195 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3198 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3199 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3200 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3201 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3202 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3203 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3204 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3205 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3206 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3207 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3208 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3209 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3210 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3211 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3212 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3214 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3218 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3221 - Better indenting of generated code.
3222 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3226 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3230 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3231 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3232 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3233 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3234 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3235 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3236 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3240 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3243 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3247 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3250 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3251 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3252 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3253 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3254 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3255 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3256 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3257 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3258 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3259 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3260 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3261 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3262 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3263 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3264 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3269 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3275 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3278 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3279 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3283 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3286 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3287 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3291 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3297 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3300 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3301 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3302 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3303 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3304 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3309 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3315 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3318 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3322 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3325 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3330 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3336 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3339 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3343 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3349 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3353 Also some indentation fixes.
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3357 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3360 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3361 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3362 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3363 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3364 Closes: #106514, #85520
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3368 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3374 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3380 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3386 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3392 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3398 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3401 change it in debhelper v4..
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3405 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3411 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3414 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3418 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3421 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3425 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3431 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3434 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3435 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3436 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3437 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3438 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3439 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3440 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3441 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3442 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3443 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3444 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3445 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3449 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3452 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3456 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3463 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3466 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3467 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3468 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3469 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3470 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3471 program those options go to. So, for example,
3472 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3473 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3474 something complex. Closes: #89311
3475 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3479 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3482 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3483 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3484 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3488 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3491 through loop. Closes: #98598
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3495 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Missing semi-colon.
3498 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3499 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3503 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3506 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3507 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3508 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3512 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3515 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3516 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3520 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3523 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3527 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3530 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3531 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3535 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3538 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3539 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3540 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3544 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3547 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3548 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3549 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3553 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3556 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3560 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3566 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3572 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3578 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3584 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3587 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3591 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3594 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3595 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3596 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3597 followed. Closes: #85483
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3601 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3603 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3604 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3605 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3609 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3612 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3613 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3614 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3615 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3616 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3617 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3618 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3619 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3620 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3621 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3622 Closes: #88464, #77743
3623 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3624 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3625 us to deal with that gracefully.
3626 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3628 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3629 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3630 a while, Closes: #51225
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3634 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3640 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3643 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3647 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3651 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3656 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3659 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3660 don't make packlist files.
3661 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3662 debhelper coding standards.
3663 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3664 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3668 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3671 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3675 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3678 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3679 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3680 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3681 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3682 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3683 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3684 but is mildly deprecated.
3685 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3686 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3687 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3688 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3689 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3690 switching to statoverrides..
3691 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3692 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3693 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3694 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3695 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3696 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3698 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3699 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3700 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3701 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3702 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3703 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3704 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3705 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3706 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3708 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3709 variable names, pod man pages).
3710 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3711 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3712 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3713 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3714 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3715 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3716 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3720 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3726 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3733 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3736 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3740 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3742 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3743 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3744 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3748 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3750 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3751 they were previously ignored.
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3755 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3757 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3758 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3762 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3764 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3765 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3766 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3772 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3776 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3778 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3779 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3783 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3785 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3786 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3787 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3788 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3789 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3790 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3791 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3792 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3793 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3794 it is an obsolete program.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3798 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3800 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3804 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3808 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3810 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3814 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3816 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3818 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3820 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3824 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3830 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * typo: Closes, #78567
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3836 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3842 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3848 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3851 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3852 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3853 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3854 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3855 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3859 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3862 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3867 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3870 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3871 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3872 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3873 backwards-compatibility.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3877 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3880 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3881 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3882 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3883 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3884 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3885 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3887 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3888 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3889 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3891 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3893 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3894 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3895 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3896 should now be raised to severity important..
3897 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3898 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3902 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3905 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3910 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3916 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3922 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3928 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3935 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3938 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3939 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3940 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3941 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3945 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3951 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3954 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3955 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3956 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3957 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3958 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3959 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3964 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3967 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3971 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3977 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3980 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3985 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3988 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3989 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3990 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3991 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3995 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3999 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4002 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4005 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4006 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4009 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4011 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4012 the TODO entry about it.
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4016 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4023 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4026 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4027 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4031 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4034 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4035 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4036 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4037 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4041 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4047 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4054 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4057 (this appears to be logal).
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4061 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4064 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4065 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4066 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4067 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4071 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4077 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4080 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4081 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4082 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4083 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4087 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4093 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4096 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4100 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4107 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4110 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4111 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4112 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4117 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4124 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4130 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4133 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4134 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4135 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4136 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4137 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4138 notice until v2 is complete.
4139 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4140 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4141 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4142 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4143 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4144 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4146 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4147 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4148 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4149 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4159 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4166 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4169 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4180 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4183 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4184 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4185 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4186 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4191 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4194 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4195 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4196 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4201 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4204 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4205 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4209 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4212 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4216 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4219 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4223 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4230 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4233 depend on the build and install targets.
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4240 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4244 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4251 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4257 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4263 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4266 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4267 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4268 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4269 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4270 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4271 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4273 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4274 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4275 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4276 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4277 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4278 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4279 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4283 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4289 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4295 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4298 right place. Closes: #55065
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4302 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4309 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4312 * Copyright date updates.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4316 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4319 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4324 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4330 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4337 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4343 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4349 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4355 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4358 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4359 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4360 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4361 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4362 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4363 bits until all files have been registered.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4367 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * dh_installmanpages:
4370 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4371 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4372 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4373 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4374 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4375 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4376 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4377 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4378 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4379 otherwise change the result at all.
4381 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4382 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4383 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4384 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4385 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4390 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4396 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4399 act on files that don't exist.
4400 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4401 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4402 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4404 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4405 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4406 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4407 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4411 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4413 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4417 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4423 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4426 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4430 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4433 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4435 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4436 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4437 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4441 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4443 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4444 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4445 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4446 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4447 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4448 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4449 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4450 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4452 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4454 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4458 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4465 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4471 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4477 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4480 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4484 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4490 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4496 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4499 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4500 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4501 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4502 I made some changes, though:
4503 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4504 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4505 that is a clear violation of policy.
4506 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4507 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4508 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4509 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4510 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4511 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4512 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4513 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4514 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4516 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4520 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4526 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4529 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4533 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4536 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4537 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4542 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4548 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4555 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4558 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4559 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4560 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4561 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4562 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4563 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4564 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4568 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4578 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4579 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4583 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4589 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4592 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4596 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4599 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4600 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4606 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4611 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4615 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4619 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4622 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4623 for the dependancies to be generated.
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4627 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4630 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4634 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4637 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4638 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4639 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4644 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4647 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4648 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4652 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4658 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4660 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4664 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4667 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4671 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4677 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4680 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4681 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4682 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4683 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4684 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4685 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4686 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4687 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4688 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4689 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4690 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4691 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4695 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4698 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4699 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4701 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4702 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4703 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4704 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4705 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4706 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4708 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4709 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4713 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4716 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4720 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4727 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4730 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4735 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4738 for building debhelper.
4739 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4743 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4750 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4753 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4757 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4760 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4761 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4762 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4763 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4764 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4765 it's always available.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4772 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4773 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4774 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4778 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4781 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4782 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4786 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4792 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4795 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4799 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4805 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4808 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4809 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4810 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4814 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4817 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4822 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4825 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4826 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4828 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4829 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4833 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4835 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4839 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4845 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4848 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4852 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4855 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4856 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4858 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4862 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4865 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4866 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4867 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4871 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4874 things if CDPATH is set.
4876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4878 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4880 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4884 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4887 seems to make sense for the transition.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4891 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4894 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4899 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4902 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4903 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4907 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4910 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4914 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4917 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4918 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4919 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4920 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4924 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4926 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4930 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4933 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4934 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4935 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4936 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4937 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4938 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4939 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4940 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4941 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4942 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4947 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4950 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4951 * README: mention doc/v2
4952 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4953 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4957 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4959 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4960 be using this script RSN.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4964 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4967 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4968 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4969 more than 1 init script.
4971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4973 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4975 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4976 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4980 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * Changed perl version detection.
4983 * Changed call to find.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4987 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4990 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4992 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4997 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * Really include dh_installpam.
5001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5003 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5005 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5006 * Wrote man page for same.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5010 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5013 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5014 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5019 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5026 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5029 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5030 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5031 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5032 x bit was being set!
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5036 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5039 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5040 well. (Closes: 38900)
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5044 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5047 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5048 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5052 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5054 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5058 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5065 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5071 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5074 help from Julian Gilbey.
5075 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5076 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5077 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5078 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5079 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5080 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5081 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5086 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5092 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5099 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5105 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5111 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5114 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5118 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5121 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5125 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5127 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5128 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5132 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5138 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5141 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5145 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5151 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5153 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5157 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5160 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5161 may be deleted. (#35845)
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5165 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * Various man page enhancements.
5168 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5173 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5176 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5177 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5181 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5184 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5185 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5186 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5188 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5189 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5194 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5200 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * Another very minor typo fix.
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5206 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * Very minor typo fix.
5210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5212 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5214 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5215 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5216 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5220 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5226 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5229 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5230 variables properly (#34850).
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5234 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5240 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5243 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5244 (automatically generated by build process).
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5248 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5250 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5254 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5257 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5258 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5260 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5264 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5267 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5271 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5273 * README: minor typo fix.
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5277 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5280 leave it at that. :-)
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5284 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5290 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5296 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5299 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5300 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5301 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5305 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5308 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5312 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5314 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5315 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5319 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5321 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5322 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5323 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5324 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5325 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5329 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5331 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5332 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5333 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5334 Craig Small for spotting this.
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5338 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5341 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5342 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5346 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5352 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5355 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5359 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5361 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5362 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5363 working on the last version of debhelper.
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5367 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5370 being made. (#23255)
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5374 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5380 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5383 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5387 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5390 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5391 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5392 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5393 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5397 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5400 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5401 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5402 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5403 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5405 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5406 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5408 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5413 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5419 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5421 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5425 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5428 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5429 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5430 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5431 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5432 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5433 suidregister actually supports it.
5434 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5435 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5439 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5446 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5449 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5450 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5451 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5452 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5453 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5454 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5455 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5459 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5461 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5462 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5466 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5468 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5469 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5470 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5471 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5472 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5476 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5479 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5481 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5482 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5483 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5484 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5485 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5486 effect, either. (#30118)
5488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5490 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5492 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5496 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5499 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5500 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5504 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5510 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5513 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5514 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5515 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5516 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5520 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5523 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5524 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5528 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5534 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5537 packages, painlessly.
5539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5541 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5543 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5547 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5553 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5559 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * The perl conversion is complete.
5563 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5565 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5566 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5567 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5572 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5575 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5576 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5577 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5581 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5584 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5586 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5588 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5589 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5593 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5596 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5597 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5601 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5607 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5609 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5610 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5611 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5612 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5613 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5614 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5618 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5621 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5622 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5623 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5624 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5628 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5630 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5631 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5635 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5638 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5639 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5640 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5641 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5642 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5643 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5644 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5645 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5649 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5655 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5657 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5658 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5659 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5660 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5665 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5667 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5668 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5672 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5674 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5675 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5679 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5682 sections of shared libraries.
5683 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5684 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5685 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5686 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5687 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5688 things you don't want them to.
5689 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5690 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5694 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5696 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5697 shared libraries. (#26414)
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5701 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5703 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5704 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5705 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5706 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5710 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5712 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5714 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5716 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5717 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5718 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5719 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5720 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5724 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5727 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5731 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5734 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5735 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5740 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5743 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5747 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5749 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5750 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5751 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5752 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5753 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5754 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5756 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5757 remove debian/files properly.
5758 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5759 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5760 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5761 * Removed bogus menu file.
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5765 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5768 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5772 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5774 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5775 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5776 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5777 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5778 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5779 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5780 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5784 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5787 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5788 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5789 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5790 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5794 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5801 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5803 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5804 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5805 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5807 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5808 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5809 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5810 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5811 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5812 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5816 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5818 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5819 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5820 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5821 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5822 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5823 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5824 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5825 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5826 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5827 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5828 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5829 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5830 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5831 passed any switches.
5832 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5836 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5839 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5840 at all for a long while.
5841 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5842 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5843 large chunks in the process.
5844 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5845 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5846 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5851 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5854 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5856 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5861 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5863 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5864 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5865 that don't always have the same files in them.
5866 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5867 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5868 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5872 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5874 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5876 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5877 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5878 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5879 updating 27 man pages.
5880 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5881 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5882 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5883 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5884 programs act on. (#25247)
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5888 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5892 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5893 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5894 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5895 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5896 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5897 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5902 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5909 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5911 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5916 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5918 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5919 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5923 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5925 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5929 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5931 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5932 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5933 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5934 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5935 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5936 package by accident.
5937 * Is version 1.0 next?
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5941 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5944 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5945 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5949 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5952 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5953 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5954 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5955 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5956 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5958 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5963 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5966 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5967 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5971 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5974 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5978 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5980 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5981 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5982 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5987 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5989 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5993 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5996 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5997 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6002 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6008 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6010 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6011 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6012 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6013 past week. Thanks, guys!
6015 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6016 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6017 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6018 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6019 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6020 would do in the same situation.
6021 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6022 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6024 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6026 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6027 permissions changed.
6028 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6029 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6030 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6031 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6032 files are treated identically.
6033 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6034 * Minor man page fixes.
6035 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6036 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6037 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6041 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6044 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6045 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6046 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6047 use -X multiple times, too.
6048 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6049 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6053 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6056 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6057 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6061 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6064 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6068 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6071 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6072 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6073 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6074 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6075 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6076 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6077 shape if you're starting a new package.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6081 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6084 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6088 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6091 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6092 because of missing symlinks.
6094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6096 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6098 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6102 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6105 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6106 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6107 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6108 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6109 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6111 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6112 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6116 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6118 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6119 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6120 to be changed after the fact :-)
6121 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6125 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6127 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6128 no version string after the -V.
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6132 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6134 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6135 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6140 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6143 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6147 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6149 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6150 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6151 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6152 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6153 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6154 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6155 I always welcome corrections!
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6159 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6161 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6165 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6167 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6168 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6169 * Documented this new switch.
6171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6173 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6175 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6176 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6177 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6178 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6179 no packages use the old behavior.
6181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6183 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6185 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6186 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6187 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6191 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6193 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6194 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6198 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6200 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6204 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6206 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6207 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6211 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6214 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6215 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6216 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6220 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6222 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6226 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6228 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6229 into the source package by accident.
6231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6233 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6235 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6236 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6237 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6238 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6239 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6240 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6241 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6246 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6248 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6250 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6251 inspired to implement some of it.
6252 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6256 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6258 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6259 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6263 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6265 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6266 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6267 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6271 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6273 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6274 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6275 have done.) (#17598)
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6279 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6285 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6287 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6291 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6293 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6294 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6298 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6300 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6301 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6302 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6306 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6308 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6309 argument processor in perl.
6310 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6311 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6312 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6313 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6317 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6319 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6320 type directories. (#16933)
6321 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6322 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6323 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6324 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6325 are supported. (#16935)
6326 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6331 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6334 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6338 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6340 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6342 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6343 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6344 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6345 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6346 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6347 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6351 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6353 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6354 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6355 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6357 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6358 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6359 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6360 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6361 a given package, or -i or -a.
6362 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6363 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6364 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6365 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6366 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6367 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6368 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6369 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6370 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6372 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6373 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6374 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6378 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6380 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6381 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6382 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6387 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6389 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6390 does not have a section.
6392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6394 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6396 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6397 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6398 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6399 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6403 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6405 * Fixed typo #16215.
6407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6409 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6411 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6412 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6413 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6414 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6415 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6416 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6421 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6424 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6425 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6426 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6431 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6433 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6437 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6443 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6445 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6446 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6447 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6448 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6449 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6450 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6451 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6455 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6461 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6463 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6464 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6468 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6470 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6471 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6472 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6473 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6477 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6479 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6480 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6484 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6486 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6490 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6492 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6493 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6497 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6499 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6500 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6504 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6506 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6510 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6512 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6513 postinst, postrm, etc.
6515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6517 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6519 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6523 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6525 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6526 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6527 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6528 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6529 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6530 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6534 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6536 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6537 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6538 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6542 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6544 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6545 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6549 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6551 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6552 installing package files into.
6553 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6558 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6560 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6562 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6566 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6568 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6572 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6574 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6575 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6579 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6581 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6582 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6583 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6584 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6585 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6589 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6591 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6592 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6593 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6594 multiple binary packages.
6595 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6596 should rebuild them with this version.
6597 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6601 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6603 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6604 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6608 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6610 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6611 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6615 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6617 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6618 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6619 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6620 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6621 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6622 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6623 debian/README.debian.
6624 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6625 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6626 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6627 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6628 in a few situations.)
6630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6632 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6634 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6638 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6640 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6644 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6646 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6647 * Fixed several man pages.
6649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6651 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6653 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6654 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6655 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6659 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6661 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6662 is ready for general use.
6663 * Added man pages for all commands.
6664 * Multiple binary package support.
6665 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6666 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6667 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6669 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6670 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6671 auto-installed as parameters.
6672 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6674 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6677 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6678 the package build directory it is to act on.
6679 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6680 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6681 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6685 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6687 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6688 ready to replace debstd.
6690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400