1 debhelper (7.4.16) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Updated French translation.
4 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatability
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
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:53:27 -0500
21 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
23 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
24 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
25 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
29 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
32 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
36 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
39 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
43 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
46 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
47 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
48 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
49 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
50 options that they do not support.
51 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
52 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
53 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
54 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
55 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
56 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
61 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
65 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
66 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
67 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
68 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
69 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
70 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
71 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
72 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
73 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
77 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
80 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
81 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
82 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
83 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
87 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Typo. Closes: #558654
90 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
91 installed. Closes: #558782
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
95 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
98 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
99 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
100 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
101 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
102 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
106 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
108 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
109 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
110 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
111 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
115 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
118 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
119 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
123 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
125 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
129 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
131 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
132 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
133 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
134 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
135 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
136 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
137 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
138 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
139 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
140 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
141 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
142 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
143 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
144 time soon.) Closes: #554509
145 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
147 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
148 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
149 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
150 document id. Closes: #555677
151 * Typo. Closes: #555659
152 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
153 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
154 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
155 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
157 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
158 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
159 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
164 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
167 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
168 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
169 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
170 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
171 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
172 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
173 translation (#494300 part 2)
176 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
178 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
179 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
180 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
181 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
182 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
186 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
189 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
190 (It was only run once due to logging.)
191 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
192 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
193 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
194 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
195 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
196 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
197 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
198 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
199 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
200 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
204 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
208 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
211 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
212 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
216 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
219 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
220 flag with arch all/any packages.
221 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
222 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
223 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
224 situation. Closes: #540794
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
228 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
232 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
233 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
234 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
235 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
236 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
239 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
240 the default. Closes: #538201
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
245 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
249 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
250 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
251 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
252 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
253 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
255 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
256 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
257 * Above Closes: #491117
258 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
263 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
269 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
270 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
271 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
275 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
278 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
279 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
280 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
281 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
282 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
287 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
289 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
290 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
291 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
295 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
297 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
301 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
303 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
304 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
306 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
307 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
308 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
312 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
314 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
315 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
319 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
325 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
327 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
328 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
329 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
334 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
336 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
340 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
343 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
344 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
345 created by using `python' first during build and install.
347 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
352 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
354 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
358 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
360 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
361 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
365 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
367 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
371 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
373 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
377 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
379 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
380 contributed by Modestas Vainius
381 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
382 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
383 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
384 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
385 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
386 that support it. Closes: #480577
387 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
388 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
389 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
391 - Adds support for cmake.
392 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
393 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
395 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
397 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
398 that use them. The options are:
399 --sourcedir, --destdir
400 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
401 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
402 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
403 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
404 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
408 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
414 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
417 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
418 default. Closes: #537140
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
422 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
425 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
426 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
430 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
432 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
433 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
437 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
440 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
444 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
447 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
449 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
450 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
451 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
455 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
458 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
459 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
460 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
464 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
467 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
468 warning or deprecation message.
469 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
470 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
471 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
472 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
473 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
474 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
475 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
476 Closes: #534639, #357434
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
480 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
486 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
489 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
490 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
491 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
492 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
494 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
495 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
496 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
500 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
506 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
508 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
513 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
516 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
520 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
524 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
525 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
527 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
528 file support. Closes: #494914
529 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
533 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
536 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
537 parameters. Closes: #527256
538 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
539 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
540 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
544 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
548 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
549 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
550 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
554 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
557 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
558 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
559 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
563 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
566 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
567 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
569 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
570 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
571 by triggers). Closes: #521181
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
575 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
579 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
583 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
586 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
587 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
588 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
589 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
594 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
600 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
603 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
604 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
605 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
606 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
607 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
609 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
610 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
611 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
612 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
613 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
614 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
618 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
621 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
622 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
623 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
624 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
625 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
627 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
631 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
633 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
637 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
639 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
640 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
641 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
642 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
643 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
644 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
645 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
646 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
647 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
648 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
649 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
653 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
655 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
656 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
658 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
659 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
660 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
661 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
663 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
664 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
668 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
670 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
671 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
672 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
673 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
674 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
675 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
676 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
678 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
679 that uses them. Affected options are:
680 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
681 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
682 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
683 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
684 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
685 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
686 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
687 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
688 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
689 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
690 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
691 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
695 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
702 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
708 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
710 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
711 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
713 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
714 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
715 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
716 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
717 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
719 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
721 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
722 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
723 rules (see bug #509756).
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
727 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
733 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
734 * Typo. Closes: #493062
735 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
736 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
740 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
743 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
744 empty files. Closes: #490937
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
748 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
754 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
761 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
764 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
765 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
766 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
767 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
772 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
774 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
775 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
776 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
777 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
781 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
784 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
785 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
786 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
787 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
788 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
792 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
799 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
801 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
802 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
803 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
804 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
805 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
806 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
807 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
808 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
809 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
810 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
814 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
817 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
818 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
819 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
820 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
822 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
823 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
824 breaking backwards compatibility.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
828 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
831 message in perl 5.10.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
835 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
841 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Convert copyright file to new format.
844 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
848 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
851 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
855 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
858 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
859 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
860 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
861 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
862 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
863 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
864 logging by dh_listpackages.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
868 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
871 run and there are no packages of that type.
872 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
873 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
874 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
875 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
877 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
878 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
882 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
884 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
885 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
886 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
890 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
893 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
894 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
896 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
897 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
898 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
899 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
900 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
901 planned but not yet implemented.)
902 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
903 if the Makefile has such a target.
904 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
905 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
906 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
907 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
908 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
909 but not yet implemented.)
910 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
911 recommended default, especially when using dh.
912 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
913 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
914 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
916 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
918 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
919 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
921 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
922 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
923 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
928 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
931 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
932 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
936 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
938 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
939 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
940 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
944 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
950 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
956 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
959 just those installed by the program.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
963 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
966 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
967 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
971 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
974 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
975 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
976 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
977 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
981 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
984 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
985 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
989 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
992 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
993 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
997 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1000 with policy. Closes: #461392
1001 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1002 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1003 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1004 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1005 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1009 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1012 Closes: #460340, #460351
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1016 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1019 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1020 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1021 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1022 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1026 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1029 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1030 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1031 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1032 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1033 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1034 package build directory won't work.
1035 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1036 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1037 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1038 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1039 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1040 mode. Closes: #459426
1041 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1046 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1049 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1053 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1057 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1058 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1059 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1060 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1061 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1062 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1066 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1069 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1070 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1071 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1072 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1076 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1079 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1080 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1081 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1082 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1083 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1087 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1090 debian/package.triggers files.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1094 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1097 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1101 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1104 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1105 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1106 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1107 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1112 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1115 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1119 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1122 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1123 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1125 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1130 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1134 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1135 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1136 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1140 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1147 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1154 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1157 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1159 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1160 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1161 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1163 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1164 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1165 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1169 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1172 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1173 * Update urls to web page.
1174 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1175 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1176 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1177 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1181 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1184 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1185 - typo in alternatives call
1186 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1188 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1189 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1193 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1196 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1201 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1207 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1213 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1216 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1218 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1219 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1220 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1221 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1222 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1223 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1224 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1225 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1226 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1227 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1228 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1232 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1235 package install. Closes: #415717
1236 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1237 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1238 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1239 script and then remove the python files.
1240 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1241 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1242 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1243 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1244 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1245 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1246 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1247 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1248 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1249 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1250 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1251 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1252 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1256 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Correct typo in french translation
1262 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1263 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1265 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1267 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1268 Closes: #406921, #381940
1269 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1271 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1272 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1273 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1274 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1275 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1276 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1277 specified). Closes: #381851
1278 * Misc minor changes.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1282 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1289 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1290 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1294 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1300 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1301 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1304 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1305 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1307 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1308 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1309 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1310 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1314 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1317 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1320 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1324 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1330 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1336 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1337 a difficult situation.
1338 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1339 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1340 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1341 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1342 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1343 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1344 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1345 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1346 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1347 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1351 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Non-maintainer upload.
1354 * Update of dh_python
1355 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1356 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1358 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1359 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1360 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1361 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1362 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1364 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1366 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Non-maintainer upload.
1369 * Update of dh_python
1370 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1371 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1372 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1373 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1374 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1375 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1376 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1377 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1378 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1379 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1381 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1382 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1383 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1384 the not too-distant future).
1385 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1386 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1387 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1388 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1389 thus made the build fail.
1391 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1393 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Non-maintainer upload.
1396 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1398 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1400 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1403 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1404 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1405 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1406 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1407 package. Closes: #301424
1408 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1409 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1410 fonts). Closes: #372686
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1414 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1420 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1421 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1422 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1423 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1424 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1425 above, but already depends on that.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1429 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1432 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1433 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1434 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1435 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1436 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1440 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1446 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1452 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1453 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1457 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1460 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1464 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1468 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1469 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1470 new version (0.24.1).
1471 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1472 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1475 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1476 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1477 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1478 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1479 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1480 new directory on their own.
1481 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1482 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1486 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1489 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1490 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1491 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1492 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1496 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1499 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1500 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1501 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1502 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1503 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1507 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1513 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1517 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1518 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1522 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1523 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1527 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1529 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1530 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1532 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1533 ignored. Closes: #337664
1535 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1540 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1546 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1551 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1552 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1553 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1554 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1555 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1556 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1557 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1561 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1564 version. Closes: #350607
1565 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1566 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1567 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1568 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1572 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1575 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1576 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1577 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1581 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1588 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1594 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1597 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1601 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1604 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1605 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1606 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1607 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1608 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1609 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1613 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1616 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1617 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1622 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1625 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1629 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1632 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1636 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1639 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1640 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1641 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1642 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1643 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1644 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1648 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1652 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1653 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1654 link. Closes: #346405
1655 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1657 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1658 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1659 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1660 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1661 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1662 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1663 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1667 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1674 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1680 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1683 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1687 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1690 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1695 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1699 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1700 installed. Closes: #342033
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1704 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1707 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1708 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1709 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1714 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1720 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1726 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1730 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1731 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1732 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1736 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1739 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1744 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1751 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1757 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1760 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1761 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1762 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1763 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1764 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1765 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1766 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1768 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1772 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1775 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1776 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1780 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1783 in standard man dirs.
1784 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1788 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1794 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1797 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1802 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1809 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1816 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1819 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1820 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1824 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1827 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1828 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1829 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1831 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1833 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1839 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1845 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1848 mode. Closes: #324161
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1852 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1855 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1856 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1857 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1858 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1863 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1866 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1867 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1868 is necesary for sanity.
1869 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1870 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1875 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1877 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1878 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1882 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1885 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1889 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1895 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1898 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1899 released, so use at your own risk.
1900 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1901 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1903 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1904 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1905 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1906 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1907 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1908 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1909 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1910 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1911 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1912 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1913 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1914 including twice per config file line now..
1915 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1916 and simplfy the rules file.
1917 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1918 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1919 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1921 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1922 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1926 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1929 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1936 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1940 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1943 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1950 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1951 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1952 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1953 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1954 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1955 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1959 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1962 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1963 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1964 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1969 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1972 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1973 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1978 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1981 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1982 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1983 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1988 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1991 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1992 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1993 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1997 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2003 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2010 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2013 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2014 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2015 unknown. Closes: #282924
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2019 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2026 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Spanish man page updates.
2029 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2034 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2040 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2043 * dh_desktop: reindent
2044 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2045 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2049 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2055 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2057 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2061 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2063 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2067 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2070 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2071 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2075 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2081 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2097 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2101 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2104 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2105 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2106 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2107 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2108 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2109 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2111 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2112 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2113 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2114 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2115 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2116 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2117 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2118 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2119 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2120 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2121 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2122 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2123 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2124 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2125 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2126 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2130 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2140 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2144 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2147 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2151 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2154 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2158 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2161 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2165 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2171 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2177 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2183 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2186 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2187 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2188 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2192 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2195 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2199 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2202 but occasionally right and necessary.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2206 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2209 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2210 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2211 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2212 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2213 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2217 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2220 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2222 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2223 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2224 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2225 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2226 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2227 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2228 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2229 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2230 postinst scripts for udebs.
2231 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2235 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2238 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2240 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2241 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2245 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2251 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2258 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2265 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2268 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2272 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2275 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2279 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2282 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2285 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2286 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2290 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2296 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2299 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2303 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2306 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2307 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2308 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2310 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2312 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2313 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2314 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2318 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2321 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2326 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2329 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2330 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2331 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2336 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2342 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2351 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2352 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2353 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2354 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2355 associated -dbg packages.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2359 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2362 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2366 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2369 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2373 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2376 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2380 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2383 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2388 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2391 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2395 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2398 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2403 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2406 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2410 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2414 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2415 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2416 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2417 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2418 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2419 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2420 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2421 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2422 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2423 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2427 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2430 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2438 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2439 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2443 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2446 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2447 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2452 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2455 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2459 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2462 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2466 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2469 out section number. Closes: #204731
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2473 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2480 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2486 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2492 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2495 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2496 removal. Closes: #204286
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2500 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2503 renaming. Closes: #203548
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2507 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2510 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2511 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2515 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2521 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2527 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2533 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2536 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2537 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2538 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2542 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2545 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2546 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2550 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2556 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2563 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2566 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2571 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2574 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2578 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2581 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2583 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2584 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2588 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2591 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2596 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2599 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2603 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2609 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2611 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2618 it break hard links (see #188663).
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2622 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2625 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2629 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2635 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2639 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2640 debconf-mergetemplates
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2644 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2647 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2651 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2654 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2658 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2661 * Update debhelper(1).
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2665 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2668 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2669 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2670 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2671 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2672 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2676 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2679 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2680 the shell. Closes: #178524
2681 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2685 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2688 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2692 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2695 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2699 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2702 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2703 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2704 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2705 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2710 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2713 files from installation.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2717 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2720 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2721 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2725 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2728 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2732 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2735 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2739 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2745 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2751 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2755 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2756 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2758 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2762 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2765 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2766 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2767 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2768 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2772 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2775 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2779 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2782 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2783 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2787 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2791 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2796 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2802 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2806 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2807 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2808 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2813 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2816 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2817 practice. Closes: #163303
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2821 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2834 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2837 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2839 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2840 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2841 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2842 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2843 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2847 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2850 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2855 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2861 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2868 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2871 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2876 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2882 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2888 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2894 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2901 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2904 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2905 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2906 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2907 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2912 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2918 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2928 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2929 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2933 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2936 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2937 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2938 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2939 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2940 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2944 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2947 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2949 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2954 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2957 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2961 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2964 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2965 right thing. Closes: #150644
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2969 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Stupid, evil typo.
2972 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2976 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2983 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2986 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2987 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2992 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2998 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3001 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3005 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3008 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3009 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3014 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3017 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3021 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3027 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3030 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3031 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3035 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3041 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Removing perl warning message.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3050 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3051 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3052 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3053 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3054 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3055 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3056 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3057 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3061 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3067 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3074 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3077 debconf-mergetemplate.
3078 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3079 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3083 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3086 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3087 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3088 dh_install, which ...
3089 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3090 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3091 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3092 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3093 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3094 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3095 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3096 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3097 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3098 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3099 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3100 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3101 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3102 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3103 other minor changes.
3104 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3105 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3106 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3107 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3108 course there's -X ..)
3109 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3110 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3111 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3113 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3114 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3115 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3116 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3117 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3122 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3128 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3131 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3135 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3141 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3147 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3153 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3159 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3162 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3163 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3164 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3165 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3167 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3168 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3172 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3178 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3181 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3185 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3188 upset. Closes: #131322
3190 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3192 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3195 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3196 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3197 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3198 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3199 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3200 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3201 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3202 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3203 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3204 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3205 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3206 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3207 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3208 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3209 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3211 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3215 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3218 - Better indenting of generated code.
3219 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3223 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3227 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3228 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3229 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3230 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3231 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3232 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3233 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3237 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3240 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3244 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3247 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3248 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3249 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3250 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3251 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3252 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3253 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3254 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3255 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3256 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3257 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3258 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3259 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3260 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3261 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3266 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3272 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3275 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3276 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3280 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3283 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3284 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3288 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3294 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3297 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3298 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3299 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3300 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3301 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3306 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3312 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3315 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3319 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3322 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3327 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3333 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3336 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3340 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3346 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3350 Also some indentation fixes.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3354 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3357 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3358 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3359 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3360 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3361 Closes: #106514, #85520
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3365 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3371 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3377 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3383 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3389 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3395 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3398 change it in debhelper v4..
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3402 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3408 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3411 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3415 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3418 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3422 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3428 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3431 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3432 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3433 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3434 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3435 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3436 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3437 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3438 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3439 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3440 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3441 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3442 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3446 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3449 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3453 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3460 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3463 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3464 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3465 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3466 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3467 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3468 program those options go to. So, for example,
3469 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3470 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3471 something complex. Closes: #89311
3472 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3476 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3479 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3480 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3481 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3485 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3488 through loop. Closes: #98598
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3492 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Missing semi-colon.
3495 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3496 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3500 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3503 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3504 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3505 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3509 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3512 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3513 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3517 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3520 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3524 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3527 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3528 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3532 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3535 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3536 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3537 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3541 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3544 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3545 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3546 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3550 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3553 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3557 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3563 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3569 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3575 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3581 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3584 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3588 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3591 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3592 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3593 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3594 followed. Closes: #85483
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3598 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3600 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3601 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3602 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3606 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3609 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3610 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3611 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3612 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3613 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3614 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3615 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3616 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3617 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3618 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3619 Closes: #88464, #77743
3620 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3621 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3622 us to deal with that gracefully.
3623 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3625 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3626 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3627 a while, Closes: #51225
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3631 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3637 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3640 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3644 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3648 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3653 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3656 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3657 don't make packlist files.
3658 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3659 debhelper coding standards.
3660 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3661 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3665 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3668 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3672 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3675 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3676 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3677 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3678 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3679 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3680 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3681 but is mildly deprecated.
3682 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3683 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3684 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3685 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3686 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3687 switching to statoverrides..
3688 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3689 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3690 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3691 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3692 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3693 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3695 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3696 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3697 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3698 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3699 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3700 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3701 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3702 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3703 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3705 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3706 variable names, pod man pages).
3707 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3708 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3709 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3710 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3711 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3712 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3713 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3717 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3723 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3730 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3733 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3737 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3739 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3740 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3741 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3745 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3747 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3748 they were previously ignored.
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3752 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3754 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3755 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3759 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3761 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3762 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3763 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3767 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3769 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3773 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3775 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3776 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3780 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3782 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3783 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3784 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3785 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3786 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3787 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3788 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3789 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3790 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3791 it is an obsolete program.
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3795 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3797 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3801 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3805 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3807 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3811 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3813 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3815 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3817 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3821 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3827 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * typo: Closes, #78567
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3833 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3839 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3845 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3848 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3849 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3850 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3851 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3852 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3856 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3859 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3864 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3867 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3868 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3869 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3870 backwards-compatibility.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3874 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3877 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3878 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3879 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3880 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3881 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3882 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3884 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3885 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3886 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3888 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3890 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3891 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3892 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3893 should now be raised to severity important..
3894 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3895 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3899 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3902 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3907 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3913 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3919 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3925 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3932 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3935 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3936 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3937 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3938 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3942 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3948 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3951 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3952 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3953 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3954 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3955 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3956 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3961 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3964 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3968 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3974 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3977 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3982 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3985 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3986 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3987 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3988 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3992 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3996 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3999 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4002 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4003 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4006 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4008 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4009 the TODO entry about it.
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4013 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4020 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4023 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4024 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4028 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4031 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4032 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4033 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4034 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4038 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4044 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4051 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4054 (this appears to be logal).
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4058 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4061 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4062 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4063 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4064 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4068 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4074 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4077 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4078 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4079 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4080 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4084 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4090 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4093 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4097 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4107 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4108 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4109 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4114 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4121 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4127 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4130 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4131 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4132 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4133 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4134 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4135 notice until v2 is complete.
4136 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4137 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4138 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4139 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4140 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4141 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4143 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4144 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4145 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4146 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4156 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4163 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4166 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4170 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4177 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4180 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4181 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4182 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4183 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4188 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4191 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4192 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4193 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4198 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4201 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4202 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4209 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4216 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4220 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4227 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4230 depend on the build and install targets.
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4234 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4237 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4241 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4254 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4260 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4263 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4264 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4265 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4266 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4267 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4268 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4270 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4271 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4272 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4273 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4274 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4275 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4276 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4280 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4286 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4292 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4295 right place. Closes: #55065
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4299 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4306 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4309 * Copyright date updates.
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4313 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4316 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4321 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4327 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4334 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4340 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4346 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4352 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4355 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4356 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4357 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4358 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4359 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4360 bits until all files have been registered.
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4364 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_installmanpages:
4367 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4368 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4369 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4370 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4371 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4372 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4373 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4374 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4375 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4376 otherwise change the result at all.
4378 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4379 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4380 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4381 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4382 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4387 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4393 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4396 act on files that don't exist.
4397 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4398 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4399 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4401 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4402 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4403 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4404 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4408 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4414 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4420 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4423 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4427 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4430 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4432 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4433 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4434 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4438 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4441 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4442 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4443 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4444 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4445 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4446 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4447 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4449 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4451 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4455 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4462 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4468 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4474 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4477 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4481 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4487 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4493 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4496 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4497 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4498 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4499 I made some changes, though:
4500 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4501 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4502 that is a clear violation of policy.
4503 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4504 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4505 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4506 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4507 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4508 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4509 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4510 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4511 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4513 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4517 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4523 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4526 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4530 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4533 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4534 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4539 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4545 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4552 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4555 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4556 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4557 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4558 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4559 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4560 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4561 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4565 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4571 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4573 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4575 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4576 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4586 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4589 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4593 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4596 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4597 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4601 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4603 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4608 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4612 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4616 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4619 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4620 for the dependancies to be generated.
4622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4624 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4626 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4627 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4631 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4634 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4635 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4636 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4641 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4644 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4645 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4649 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4655 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4661 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4664 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4668 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4674 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4677 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4678 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4679 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4680 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4681 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4682 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4683 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4684 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4685 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4686 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4687 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4688 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4692 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4695 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4696 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4698 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4699 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4700 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4701 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4702 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4703 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4705 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4706 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4710 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4713 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4717 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4724 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4727 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4732 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4735 for building debhelper.
4736 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4740 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4747 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4750 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4754 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4757 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4758 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4759 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4760 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4761 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4762 it's always available.
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4766 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4769 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4770 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4771 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4775 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4778 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4779 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4783 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4789 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4792 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4796 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4802 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4805 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4806 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4807 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4811 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4814 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4819 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4822 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4823 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4825 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4826 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4830 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4836 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4838 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4842 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4845 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4849 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4852 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4853 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4855 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4859 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4861 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4862 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4863 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4864 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4868 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4871 things if CDPATH is set.
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4875 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4881 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4883 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4884 seems to make sense for the transition.
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4888 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4891 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4896 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4899 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4900 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4904 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4907 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4911 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4913 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4914 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4915 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4916 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4917 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4921 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4927 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4930 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4931 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4932 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4933 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4934 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4935 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4936 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4937 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4938 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4939 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4944 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4947 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4948 * README: mention doc/v2
4949 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4950 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4954 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4956 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4957 be using this script RSN.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4961 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4964 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4965 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4966 more than 1 init script.
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4970 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4973 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4977 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * Changed perl version detection.
4980 * Changed call to find.
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4984 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4987 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4989 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4994 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * Really include dh_installpam.
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5000 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5003 * Wrote man page for same.
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5007 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5010 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5011 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5016 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5023 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5025 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5026 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5027 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5028 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5029 x bit was being set!
5031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5033 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5035 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5036 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5037 well. (Closes: 38900)
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5041 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5044 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5045 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5049 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5051 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5055 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5062 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5068 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5071 help from Julian Gilbey.
5072 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5073 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5074 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5075 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5076 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5077 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5078 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5083 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5089 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5096 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5102 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5108 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5111 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5115 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5118 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5122 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5125 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5129 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5131 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5135 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5137 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5138 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5142 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5148 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5154 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5157 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5158 may be deleted. (#35845)
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5162 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * Various man page enhancements.
5165 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5170 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5173 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5174 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5178 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5181 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5182 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5183 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5185 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5186 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5191 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5197 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5199 * Another very minor typo fix.
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5203 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * Very minor typo fix.
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5209 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5212 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5213 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5217 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5223 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5226 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5227 variables properly (#34850).
5229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5231 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5233 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5237 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5240 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5241 (automatically generated by build process).
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5245 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5247 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5251 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5254 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5255 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5257 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5261 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5263 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5264 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5268 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * README: minor typo fix.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5274 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5277 leave it at that. :-)
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5281 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5287 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5289 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5293 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5296 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5297 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5298 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5302 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5305 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5309 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5312 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5316 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5319 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5320 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5321 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5322 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5326 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5329 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5330 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5331 Craig Small for spotting this.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5335 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5338 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5339 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5343 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5349 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5352 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5356 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5358 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5359 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5360 working on the last version of debhelper.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5364 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5367 being made. (#23255)
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5371 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5377 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5379 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5380 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5384 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5387 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5388 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5389 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5390 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5394 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5397 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5398 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5399 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5400 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5402 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5403 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5405 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5410 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5416 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5422 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5425 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5426 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5427 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5428 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5429 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5430 suidregister actually supports it.
5431 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5432 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5436 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5443 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5446 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5447 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5448 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5449 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5450 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5451 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5452 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5456 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5458 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5459 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5463 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5466 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5467 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5468 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5469 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5473 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5476 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5478 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5479 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5480 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5481 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5482 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5483 effect, either. (#30118)
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5487 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5493 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5496 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5497 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5501 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5507 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5510 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5511 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5512 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5513 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5517 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5520 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5521 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5525 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5527 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5531 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5533 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5534 packages, painlessly.
5536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5538 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5540 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5544 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5550 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5556 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * The perl conversion is complete.
5560 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5562 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5563 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5564 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5569 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5572 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5573 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5574 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5578 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5581 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5583 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5585 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5586 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5590 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5593 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5594 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5598 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5604 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5607 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5608 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5609 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5610 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5611 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5615 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5618 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5619 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5620 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5621 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5625 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5627 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5628 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5632 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5634 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5635 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5636 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5637 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5638 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5639 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5640 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5641 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5642 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5646 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5652 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5655 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5656 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5657 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5662 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5665 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5669 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5672 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5676 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5679 sections of shared libraries.
5680 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5681 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5682 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5683 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5684 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5685 things you don't want them to.
5686 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5687 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5691 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5694 shared libraries. (#26414)
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5698 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5700 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5701 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5702 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5703 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5707 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5711 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5713 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5714 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5715 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5716 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5717 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5721 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5723 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5724 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5728 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5731 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5732 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5737 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5740 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5744 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5747 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5748 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5749 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5750 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5751 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5753 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5754 remove debian/files properly.
5755 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5756 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5757 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5758 * Removed bogus menu file.
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5762 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5764 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5765 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5769 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5772 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5773 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5774 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5775 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5776 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5777 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5781 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5784 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5785 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5786 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5787 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5791 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5798 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5801 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5802 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5804 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5805 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5806 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5807 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5808 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5809 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5813 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5816 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5817 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5818 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5819 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5820 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5821 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5822 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5823 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5824 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5825 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5826 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5827 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5828 passed any switches.
5829 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5833 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5836 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5837 at all for a long while.
5838 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5839 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5840 large chunks in the process.
5841 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5842 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5843 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5848 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5851 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5853 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5858 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5861 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5862 that don't always have the same files in them.
5863 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5864 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5865 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5869 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5873 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5874 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5875 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5876 updating 27 man pages.
5877 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5878 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5879 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5880 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5881 programs act on. (#25247)
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5885 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5889 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5890 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5891 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5892 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5893 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5894 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5899 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5906 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5913 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5916 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5920 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5926 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5928 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5929 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5930 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5931 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5932 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5933 package by accident.
5934 * Is version 1.0 next?
5936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5938 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5940 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5941 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5942 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5946 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5949 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5950 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5951 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5952 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5953 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5955 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5960 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5962 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5963 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5964 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5968 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5970 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5971 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5975 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5978 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5979 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5984 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5990 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5992 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5993 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5994 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5999 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6005 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6008 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6009 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6010 past week. Thanks, guys!
6012 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6013 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6014 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6015 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6016 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6017 would do in the same situation.
6018 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6019 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6021 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6023 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6024 permissions changed.
6025 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6026 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6027 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6028 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6029 files are treated identically.
6030 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6031 * Minor man page fixes.
6032 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6033 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6034 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6038 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6040 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6041 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6042 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6043 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6044 use -X multiple times, too.
6045 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6046 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6050 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6053 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6054 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6058 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6061 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6065 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6067 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6068 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6069 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6070 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6071 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6072 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6073 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6074 shape if you're starting a new package.
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6078 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6080 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6081 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6085 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6087 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6088 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6089 because of missing symlinks.
6091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6093 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6095 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6099 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6101 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6102 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6103 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6104 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6105 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6106 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6108 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6109 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6113 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6115 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6116 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6117 to be changed after the fact :-)
6118 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6122 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6124 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6125 no version string after the -V.
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6129 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6131 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6132 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6137 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6139 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6140 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6144 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6146 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6147 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6148 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6149 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6150 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6151 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6152 I always welcome corrections!
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6156 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6162 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6164 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6165 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6166 * Documented this new switch.
6168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6170 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6172 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6173 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6174 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6175 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6176 no packages use the old behavior.
6178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6180 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6182 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6183 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6184 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6188 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6190 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6191 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6195 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6197 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6201 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6203 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6204 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6208 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6210 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6211 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6212 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6213 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6217 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6223 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6225 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6226 into the source package by accident.
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6230 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6232 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6233 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6234 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6235 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6236 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6237 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6238 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6243 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6245 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6247 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6248 inspired to implement some of it.
6249 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6253 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6255 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6256 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6260 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6262 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6263 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6264 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6268 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6270 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6271 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6272 have done.) (#17598)
6274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6276 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6278 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6282 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6284 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6288 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6290 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6291 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6295 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6297 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6298 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6299 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6303 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6305 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6306 argument processor in perl.
6307 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6308 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6309 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6310 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6314 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6316 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6317 type directories. (#16933)
6318 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6319 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6320 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6321 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6322 are supported. (#16935)
6323 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6328 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6330 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6331 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6335 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6337 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6339 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6340 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6341 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6342 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6343 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6344 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6348 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6351 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6352 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6354 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6355 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6356 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6357 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6358 a given package, or -i or -a.
6359 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6360 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6361 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6362 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6363 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6364 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6365 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6366 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6367 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6369 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6370 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6371 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6375 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6377 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6378 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6379 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6384 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6386 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6387 does not have a section.
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6391 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6394 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6395 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6396 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6400 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6402 * Fixed typo #16215.
6404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6406 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6408 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6409 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6410 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6411 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6412 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6413 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6418 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6420 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6421 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6422 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6423 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6428 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6430 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6434 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6436 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6440 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6442 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6443 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6444 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6445 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6446 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6447 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6448 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6452 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6454 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6458 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6460 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6461 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6465 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6467 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6468 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6469 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6470 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6474 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6476 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6477 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6481 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6483 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6487 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6489 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6490 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6494 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6496 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6497 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6501 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6507 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6509 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6510 postinst, postrm, etc.
6512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6514 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6516 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6520 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6522 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6523 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6524 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6525 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6526 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6527 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6531 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6533 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6534 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6535 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6539 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6541 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6542 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6546 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6548 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6549 installing package files into.
6550 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6555 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6557 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6559 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6563 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6565 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6569 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6571 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6572 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6576 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6578 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6579 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6580 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6581 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6582 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6586 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6588 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6589 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6590 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6591 multiple binary packages.
6592 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6593 should rebuild them with this version.
6594 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6598 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6600 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6601 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6605 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6607 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6608 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6612 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6614 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6615 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6616 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6617 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6618 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6619 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6620 debian/README.debian.
6621 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6622 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6623 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6624 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6625 in a few situations.)
6627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6629 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6631 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6635 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6637 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6641 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6643 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6644 * Fixed several man pages.
6646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6648 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6650 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6651 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6652 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6656 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6658 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6659 is ready for general use.
6660 * Added man pages for all commands.
6661 * Multiple binary package support.
6662 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6663 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6664 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6666 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6667 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6668 auto-installed as parameters.
6669 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6671 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6674 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6675 the package build directory it is to act on.
6676 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6677 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6678 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6682 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6684 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6685 ready to replace debstd.
6687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400